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...first jump. During the Six-Day War, he made a point of trying to be first wherever he went -to the Wailing Wall, for instance, where he sounded the shofar (the traditional ram's horn). He is also admired as an astute scholar and consummate finder of Halakhah loopholes that more easily accommodate Orthodox observance to a technological world...
Robert McNamara, whose bullet-headed manner made him appear an ideal fact-finder, had a fondness for mathematics. David Halberstam has reported that on one Vietnam trip, an edgy McNamara sat through a dull series of fabricated progress reports by American military advisers, but was exhilarated when one clever officer presented his fabricated progress report with elaborate charts, graphs, and computer statistics. Those were facts...
...over handshakes between Burke and "probably 50 or 60" people who subsequently invested in Burke-run funds. Many of them funneled their cash into the stock of a fundraising corporation called GeoTek, of which Chandler is a director. For his services, Chandler in 1965 collected $109,200 in cash "finder's fees," which he returned to a Burke company this year after the first evidence surfaced of a possible scandal. The list of prominent investors includes Simon Ramo, a director of the Times parent company and a founder of the huge electronics-aerospace firm TRW Inc., who also lent...
...haven't forgotten how to "point off," giving $10,000 to the finder of $500,000 is the equivalent of rewarding the finder of a $5 bill with a dime...
...become a natural part of people. It can make a person pause in his rush through life. It will help him to focus himself on some aspect of life, and in the process, enrich his life at that moment. This happens as you focus through the view finder. It's not merely the camera you are focusing; you are focusing yourself. That's an integration of your personality, right that second. Then when you touch the button, what's inside you comes out. It's the most basic form of creativity. Part...