Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard education. Singer describes the benefits of CIA training, by drawing a comparison between the fall of the Shah in Iran and the fall of Marcos in the Philippines. The U.S. government never acted on its knowledge that the Shah was weak, but the government put information to good use in formulating policy towards the Philippines when deciding when to back away from Marcos and support Aquino...
...course, Singer is right. More intelligent use of information--in the right hands--can improve U.S. foreign policy. However, the beauty of methodological knowledge is that it is value-neutral--and can serve both good or evil ends. After all, Alfred Nobel invented dynamite to build train tunnels...
...Kennedy School is training the CIA to use its intelligence more effectively. Who's to say the CIA won't use this training to push through more operations like the Iran-contra scam? Singer claims that this reasoning is a "redherring." But the salient issue in CIA training is that the CIA often pursues unsavory foreign policy initiatives, like the Iran-contra scam and the overthrow of Allende in Chile in 1973. The CIA is not just another government agency--it deserves extremely close scrutiny...
There are a lot of differences between that Villanova team and the Princeton squad. The Tigers use the slow offense all the time while Villanova used it just for that game...
...ringette, players use bladeless sticks to shoot a 6-in. soft rubber ring into a regulation hockey goal. There is no offside rule in effect, but there are restrictions on the movements of the players. The defensemen and forwards cannot cross their side of the center-ice red line. But the center is allowed to go into both halves of the rink, so she must be able to defend the other center and also beat the other center into the offensive zone. The speedy Lind, not surprisingly, played center...