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...There's a dictum in anthropology that the observer changes the behavior of the observed. Have you been in situations where you felt that your presence was really affecting things...
Julius, their extravagantly gay friend, is a book and film reviewer whose former potential has waned through his years of bohemian dissipation. His might be said to emulate the dictum of his personal idol, Oscar Wilde: “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” The problem is, in his excessive zeal for personality as an aesthetic, he has neglected to perform any “actual sustained endeavor...
...because my dad was a doctor,” Ogunwole said. “When I was really young, I saw a Ben Carson documentary, and I saw brain surgery. It was really interesting to me.” To achieve his dream, Ogunwole has exemplified the ancient Latin dictum, “A sound mind in a sound body.” Last year, as the team’s junior tri-captain, Ogunwole managed wrestling in addition to his five classes and MCAT examination.Might his intimidating figure unsettle patients on the operating table? Meltzer, for one, responded positively...
...ardent and violent as ever. What's changing is our view of them. We in the easily distracted West may be becoming wiser, little by little. Hard experience will do that, like it or not. We are beginning to embrace--slowly and often against our will--that ancient dictum "Know thine enemy." Investigators rounding up suspects searched for a definitive link to al-Qaeda's leaders. Indeed, two of the would-be bombers seem to have met in Pakistan with an alleged al-Qaeda lieutenant and explosives expert. But a clear link may be beside the point. Osama bin Laden...
...fact is, contrary to the dictum that politics should stop at the water's edge, political decisions sure don't stop there. And their repercussions don't tap on the brakes when making the return trip, as the coffins starkly show. The message of the ad is simple and, in a democracy at war, legitimate: Let's get rid of the guys who signed off on this. (The fact that some of the guys who signed off were Democrats is an inconvenient subtlety the ad elides.) You can disagree with its argument, but to have that argument in an election...