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...public schools to contradict the "Divine creation of man" by teaching that man instead "descended from a lower order of animals." John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher in Dayton, taught just that to bring the law into court. Clarence Darrow, the celebrity defense attorney, and William Jennings Bryan, three-time presidential loser and evangelical orator, headlined the opposing legal teams...
Dodge & Cox has also found there to be an important structural element to team decision making. "Committees react best to a specific proposition," says Bryan Cameron, director of research and a member of the committees that pick domestic and foreign stocks. So when analysts make a presentation, they propose a particular course of action--increasing the percentage of Wal-Mart from 2% of the portfolio to 2.2%, say. The analyst advocates, and the committee meditates--somewhat like a jury...
...Bryan Owens, the commander of U.S. forces in Salahuddin province, isn't hoping for the kind of tribal "awakening" seen in neighboring Anbar. In the desert reaches to the north of Owens' command, a number of tribal leaders have gathered themselves and their followers under the banner of Sunni chieftain Sheik Abdul Sittar, who has vowed to work with U.S. forces at crushing insurgents associated with al-Qaeda. The pact has brought some significant successes. The daily average of insurgent attacks in Anbar province has dropped by almost 50% in roughly a year, coming down to about...
...much research goes into creating a character like the neurosurgeon in Saturday? - Jarret Bryan, BROOKLYN...
...Bryan C. Barnhill Jr. ’08, the president of the Black Men’s Forum, says his organization plans to collaborate with the Center next year on a joint event...