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...worrisome. Tommy Ray Franks is none of those: he is quick, funny, very private, ferociously hardworking and, everyone says, a rare leader of soldiers, particularly enlisted troops. He is also, at least in public, the consummate strong and silent type, the good soldier who shuns the limelight in marked contrast to some of his predecessors at Central Command. All this makes Franks, 57, ideally suited as the go-to general for the second Bush Administration. Retired Admiral Archie Clemins, who commanded the Pacific Fleet when Franks was serving in Korea six years ago, noted that "a lot of generals have...
...translate into more protection. In one of the studies reported last week, more patients in the group taking full-strength, 325-mg aspirin pills developed colon cancer (10.7%) than in the group taking so-called baby, or 81-mg, aspirin (7.7%). The cancer rate in the placebo group, by contrast...
...seed has been a prosperous position in the two-year history of NCAA tournaments. Duluth won the tournament as the No. 2 seed in both 2001 and 2002. In contrast, the No. 1 seed did not reach the championship game either year...
...contrast to the capacity audience drawn by the 2002 event, which was also held in Leverett, the crowd at Friday’s contest filled about half of the dining hall...
Indeed, in contrast with many media productions during that period—at first graced by the networks’ decision not to run ads, then vulgarized by their slick “Attack on America” graphics—DoubleTake was an ideal setting for personal accounts and photoessays that were, in Walker Percy’s terms, neither patronizing nor didactic...