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Even so, Kissinger complained throughout Nixon's first term that CIA assessments of the state of the world, which were prepared by the agency's Board of National Estimates, were unfocused and useless for policymaking. Last year Colby abolished the twelve-member board and replaced it with experts assigned to a country or region. Now they periodically make concrete recommendations through Colby to the National Security Council. The result has been to make the CIA in its intelligence work less of a semiautonomous think tank and more of an appendage of the NSC and the White House...
Junior concentrators contacted yesterday had mixed reactions about the decision. Many felt the general exam, required in all honor concentrations, was a useless extra burden in a department which has no stated requirements other than tutorials...
DESPITE THEIR underlying theme of "remembering," these stories don't come together into a unified reading experience; they don't make up a book. And that may be the most frustrating part about the whole endeavor. Davenport's sense of history is limited--sometimes so specialized as to be useless. Who, after all, would know what a young man described as a "redstone kouros from Sounion...translated into the slenderer grace of a modern gramivore" is unless he knew that the kouros was an idealized version of the male in ancient Greek sculpture practiced in Sounion and that a gramivore...
This was the question that the Wisconsin team, headed by Dr. Richard Stewart, attempted to answer during a massive three-year study. Concluding that air-monitoring systems are almost useless as a guide, the researchers decided to measure the concentrations of CO in the blood of 29,000 donors at blood centers in 18 areas of the U.S. They accepted as the danger threshold the one laid down by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act: a 1.5% concentration of car boxy hemoglobin (COHb)-the proportion of the body's oxygen-transport system that has been usurped...
Industry too has experimented with psychiatric profiles, requesting them on likely executive talent. In recent years, however, the business has slumped. Alfred Marrow, president of the National Academy of Professional Psychologists, explains that "the profiles turned out to be useless" because there was little relationship between their conclusions and an executive's performance on the job. James Clovis of Handy Assoc., an executive-recruitment firm, reports that companies are now more interested in their own personal evaluation of a job candidate and his performance records than what psychologists might say. Perhaps most important, many firms have an understandable fear...