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Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico JOHN GAVIN at Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif.: "I do encourage you to maintain an active and healthy skepticism. That, after all, is what a university preparation is about, learning to judge, learning to think. I am constantly amazed by the distortions and untruths I find in reports and comments about subjects on which I am informed. I therefore cannot help but have a healthy skepticism. I encourage you to adopt the same attitude. It is wise to remember, as my father says, that some people so treasure the truth that they use it with great...
...which contained military instructions from "the highest level" of the Kremlin to the next echelon of authority, according to the defendant's former supervisor. He was familiar with a top-secret program for processing encoded Soviet messages and aware that it was being given an "upgraded capability" that would maintain its usefulness into the 1990s. He was the author of a 60-page "encyclopedia" on Soviet communication signals that set forth which ones were to receive top U.S. decoding priority and how quickly each had to be analyzed...
...environment creates a real crazy attitude in demanding people to be thin and exercise a lot, be successful and perfect, all as a package deal. There's also the suggestion that we can still eat what we want and [maintain this image]. There's no woman who isn't affected [in some way by this pressure]," says Honnet...
...face of such speculation, some scholars wonder how well the Center, which according to a respected national rating has fallen relative to similar institutions, can maintain even its tarnished reputation during years of interim leadership...
Given this lack of intellectual and administrative rigor, only the most directed and self-sufficient of students are able to maintain the drive that propelled them into the Yard four years ago. Other students find themselves unwilling to do their best work for courses for fear of rebuff; they know that they will receive largely the same grade in any case...