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McKee's thick, 37-page Army dossier contains so many blacked-out words that it's hard to glean the danger he faced. Surviving the censor's ink was his title, "Team Chief." Under "Evaluation," it was written that he "performs constantly in the highest-stress environment with clear operational judgment and demeanor . . . Especially strong in accomplishing the mission with minimal guidance and supervision . . . Continues to perform one of the most hazardous and demanding jobs in the Army...
Such morality tales are part of the daily rounds in cbs's new medical series The Human Factor, which debuts this week. The show's guiding thesis is that doctors don't pay enough attention to the emotional side of treating patients. Viewers, however, may well glean another message: ban all senior medical experts from your hospital-room door, and put yourself in the hands of the first caring youngster you see roaming the halls. Oh, well, who said TV medical shows had to make sense...
Today, those students wishing to start up or revitalize clubs have little in the way of resources which allow them to easily glean insight from the experience of the leaders of older, larger extracurriculars. A student center would provide a central meeting place and a tangible symbol of the continuity of student activities...
...dean said that the committee will hopefully glean from the review of other experiences "suggestions that can be made to the societies about how issues can be developed [at Harvard...
...cleanup crew that followed in Souter's wake to glean cloakroom prattle heard him compared to Calvin Coolidge and called a "mousy little guy." Bush can live with that. Souter is a Harvard-Phi Beta Kappa-Rhodes scholar mouse...