The range of insider reference, innuendo and quotation, from Aristotle to Liberace, is astonishing: those you know, those you don't know and those you don't know you don't know (likely most of them).
Given the range of research and global health experience, as well as the varied involvement in the SI program, the team was able to approach the research from a fluid range of insider and outsider positions.
Mr. Palatucci built a thriving lobbying practice, and the two forged a close friendship — one that gave Mr. Christie access to a broad range of Republican insiders in New Jersey.
The guests included a wide range of Washington insiders, and as the dinner was coming to an end, there had been little in our discussion to be hopeful about.
The prosecution of Mr. Rajaratnam, a Sri Lankan-born hedge fund billionaire, is the centerpiece of the Justice Department's wide ranging investigation of insider trading on Wall Street.
It is assiduously reported, wide ranging, full of insider stories about the superheated world of the stock market in the late 1990's and the traders, television analysts and journalists who made highly visible careers in it.
That said, in the current information age, the program also recognizes that intelligence can come from a much wider range of sources than employee insiders.
The dilemma has prompted commentary from a stream of insiders and observers — ranging from entertainers who have worked with Rock to academics who study race in Hollywood — to predict how Rock will do when the curtain rises at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday.
Of course the civil service covers a diverse range of services, but according to insiders, the culture is one of deferring to authority.
I spent a recent weekend chatting with a diverse range of energy-literate experts and insiders – congressional staff, think tankers, NGO reps, energy company execs – and this question came up repeatedly.
