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...cast of mind. "Given the choice," says Ian, "I would always employ a shooter over a non-shooter. A good shooter is responsible, he's careful. He thinks about what he's doing, and when it's over he thinks about how to do it better." Says Alan, a teacher: "The art on the range, on the job, in life, is to aim and to hit exactly the target, the one target, the only target, dead center, with one round." Clearly, I have a lot of practicing to do. But shooting has taught me that while...
...provide infrastructure to match the huge growth. The area needs more retail stores and relief for crowded schools, and an overhaul of the subway and commuter-rail systems is moving slowly. "We have only one full-service hospital below 12th Street, and it has serious financial challenges," says Alan Gerson, a lower Manhattan city councilman. Of all the neighborhoods, Chinatown has shown the least improvement. The garment industry there never fully recovered, existing zoning laws inhibit residential development, and the area is struggling to make the most of the hundreds of small businesses that dominate the area. But Chinatown...
...ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ...
...letter to the editor "Plagiarism Accusations Unfairly Characterized" by Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter Professor of Law, incorrectly implied that Harry S. Martin '65, the Ess Librarian of Harvard Law School, dismissed charges of academic dishonesty against Dershowitz as "baseless." While Martin says he has validated the acceptability of certain methods of citation that Dershowitz used in his book Chutzpah, he says he has not attempted any comprehensive review of the work...
...significant that Margaret Thatcher - no shrinking violet - feared no politicians yet freely admitted that she faced her weekly briefing sessions with the Queen with trepidation. I greatly enjoyed your story about the Queen, but please don't dismiss her role as "self-evidently nonsensical." Let the monarchy evolve. Michael Alan Peate Ottawa A General Disagreement It's a pity that the American public was not privileged to hear the dissenting voices of professional soldiers such as Lieut. General Greg Newbold [April 17] before incompetent civilians like Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney - and our own Tony Blair - committed...