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...Adds Ibrahim Salah: "He did not have a lot of friends. He would get upset if someone's jokes went too far with him. He was too decent and liked to keep everything in the right place and everyone in his right place. His approach would be, 'Look, I do not know you too well so you should not kid around with...
...think one of the most interesting people, and he’s very easy to underestimate, is John Shalikashvili [former Secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]. He’s an uncommon man, a decent man, and he has a certain nobility. He’s surprisingly erudite. I think he was a man not a lot of people paid attention to and never had much of a public relations machinery, but I think he’s a very superior man; I like him. There are a lot of fascinating people there....but when you ask that who?...
...every Dell and Cisco, these days, there is a Sun and an AMD, issuing glum earnings outlooks and quietly smothering the newborn tech optimism in its cradle. And the NASDAQ that had posted decent gains Thursday on the it's-gonna-be-OK news from America's bellwether PC producer and router-maker quickly crumbled, shedding its gains dolefully into Friday afternoon. Taken together with job cuts soaring to ten-year highs last month (and that's just the barest taste of the post-disaster economy - the hold at 4.9 percent unemployment for September is the ultimate in lagging indicators...
...City. I claim no special victimhood, but I've seen firsthand the effects of the crimes of Sept. 11 on neighbors, friends, complete strangers. Which is to say, I need no reminder that these are horrible times, times that demand kindness and goodwill, that challenge your faith in anything decent. But if "returning to normal" means anything, it means not swallowing the cheap idea that being right must mean being good. It will mean that nobody, from the President to creators of fictional presidents, can use these sad times to be shielded from criticism. And more important...
...even exists at the MAC, as many anxious gym-goers bypass the machine sign-up sheets to sneak onto an ellipticycle and attempt to skip the usual 30 minute wait. Adds Alex S. Grodd ‘04, “It went from being disgusting and unsafe to decent. But now that it’s decent, it’s too crowded, so you have to go at off-peak hours...