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...unwilling to share the information and why. If we got something wrong, we heard about it; when we got something particularly right, we heard about that too. Regarding issues on which reasonable people could disagree, he seemed to revel in the chance to conduct debates back and forth with us, and though he rarely yielded his position, he was willing to acknowledge the strength of opposing viewpoints. Interacting with Lewis sometimes made us want to tear our hair out, but the number and quality of our exchanges helped our work immensely. Over his eight years as dean, Lewis...
...fish and blue tang, among others. Some became scuba divers to study their subjects more closely. They hired a "fabulous fish guy," Adam Summers, professor at the University of California at Irvine, who schooled them in the two types of swimming fish: rowers, who move their fins back and forth, and flappers, who move theirs up and down. By coincidence, Stanton had chosen one of each kind--a rower clown fish and a flapper blue tang--as his leads...
...Numan's capture was accompanied only by a terse statement from the US Central Command that offered no detail. But TIME has learned that Numan's capture followed a three-week back-and-forth negotiation involving Numan's family and other intermediaries, a scenario not unlike the one that paved the way for the surrender of deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz to US forces on April...
...Community." The moderate Democratic Leadership Council cleverly revised the slogan at its annual meeting last summer: "Opportunity, Responsibility and Security." Several of the Democratic contenders have fixed on security as a theme this year. Not just national security but homeland security, financial security, health-care security and so forth. It seems likely that this one word will be as prominent in 2004 as the image of George Bush in his jump suit. But on the real security issue--national security--the Democrats will fail if they merely agree with the President...
...expect there to be some back and forth even in lecture,” he said...