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...people get it? E-mail is dangerous, especially if you dash it off without thinking about where it's going. A few politicos, including former FEMA director Michael Brown, learned their lesson last week when careless office repartee became national must-reads...
...shoulder and into the net. Raimondi also assisted on Wilson’s second tally and finished with four assists on the night. Still, Wilson knows that the team has a lot of work to do. “I think we kind of learned our lesson, that we just can’t take any team lightly,” Wilson said. “We just didn’t come out as ready as we should have.” During that same middle frame, neither team found much rhythm despite each netting a goal...
...thing separating a safe incompletion from a pick was the ineptitude of the Lions’ secondary. Columbia had an ongoing problem pulling in passes, dropping at least half a dozen catchable tosses on which the Crimson secondary couldn’t follow up. It’s a lesson that Harvard has learned the hard way this season—the Crimson committed six turnovers in its 49-14 loss to Lehigh on Oct. 1, the most of any Ivy team this year. “You’re not going to beat any team with five turnovers...
...film is moved through memory, and then through art. THC: What about the cultural resonance of the war in which you fought, particularly with the three generations of servicemen in your family; what do you think can be passed on? AS: I didn’t listen to the lesson my father tried to teach me, which was to not join the military…my father saw, as most men who served in Vietnam saw, rather brutal and heinous things and wisely, he didn’t want his sons to see the same things. So I failed...
...results would be devastating,” he said to a crowd of about 200. Perry, who is now a professor at Stanford University, compared the U.S.’ policy of deterrence during the Cold War with its current policy of preemptive attacks. He concluded that the best lesson that could be drawn from the Cold War was that patience was necessary in order to deal with the threat of nuclear weapons. Perry criticized some aspects of America’s current foreign policy. During the question-and-answer period that followed the one-hour talk, an audience member...