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...Committee] as we look toward various candidacies for mayor—including my own,” said Davis. The mayor is elected internally by City Council members. Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 said that the proposal risked the “danger of recreating the wheel” by duplicating current auditing functions. Responding to the criticism, Galluccio said he was “shocked at the level of defensiveness” in the remarks of Walser and others, and called the defensiveness “indicative of the lack of confidence...
...expect that being home would be a plus for the troops, but actually it's often a complication. Soldiers in the field have to cope with danger, but at least they live in one world, whereas their counterparts at Nellis commute daily from war to civilian life. "How many people can say they went to work today and killed or captured a few terrorists?" says Lieut. Colonel John Harris, commander of the 15th. "Our people are proud they contribute to the war from home. But being at home brings some additional stresses. We're very close to a crisis...
...Daniel Craig, who is the next James Bond; Ciaran Hinds as his opposite, a meticulous cleanup artist; Mathieu Kassovitz as a toymaker who dabbles in bombmaking; and Hanns Zischler as an expert document forger. None of them have particularly accommodating natures, but the stress of living under constant danger becomes their bonding agent. The cast too came from all over the globe, including Israel and other parts of the Middle East. "It was like going to the U.N. every day," says Bana, an Australian. "There was always plenty of rich social and political discussion, no doubt about...
...doctors hope to further reduce the danger of rejection by injecting the patient with stem cells taken from the bone marrow of the original donor. That is an experimental approach in which the donated stem cells should, in effect, teach the woman's immune system to tolerate the graft...
...Chinese Communist Party officials have been frequently criticized for trying to cover up bad news after the fact, but in this case they chose to withhold what they knew even while the danger persisted. As the poison flowed downstream, information flowed in only one direction: up. While the public remained in the dark, officials reported to their superiors, who in turn reported further up the command chain. At each level, officials understood that there was less risk of official censure in awaiting orders than in making snap decisions that might have enabled residents to prepare...