Word: miller
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...academics are ushered in to brief the assembled leaders on trends in energy supply, patterns of urbanization or intellectual-property rights. The discussion can last until the evening, when Hu sums things up, though he reportedly rarely expresses his own opinion. "It's amazing," says Alice Lyman Miller, a China scholar at Stanford University and editor of China Leadership Monitor, "the thought of the entire Politburo sitting around and listening to academics for hours...
Clayton D. Miller ’10 doesn’t look like someone who would casually refer to himself in conversation as a Level 68 Dwarf Priest. Disarmingly polite, with a large buckled belt and a baseball cap that proudly reads “The Virginian,” Miller is every bit the Southern gentleman. And yet, surprisingly, every bit the World of Warcraft enthusiast.“You think you won’t be into it ‘til you try it,” he drawls. “Like Harry Potter...
...fellow survivors gave Head a wide berth, too. "All of us are so deferential to each other," says Peter Miller, a financial planner who was on the 65th floor of the North Tower on 9/11 and who has worked closely with Head over the years through survivor events. "We just assume we're always on the brink of getting emotional." He remembers noticing one inconsistency in Head's story: Miller was there when I met Head for coffee three years ago. During our conversation, he heard Head refer to her fiancé. Years later, while conducting tours of Ground Zero...
...After that, Miller's recollection is hazy. "I may have asked, 'Well, then why did you refer to him as your fiancé?' But you don't want to press these things. I don't even remember what her response was, if I did indeed press her. I was sort of of the mind-set, 'whatever makes her feel better.' Her story was just so much more horrible than anything else...
...Four days before the Times story came out, Head called Miller to tell him that the article was in the works - and that it was an invasion of privacy and untrue, Miller says. Having now read the story, he says he finds it to be fair. Beyond that, he does not know what to think. He hopes clarity will come. "Beneath everything - and above everything - there is always the truth," he says in a resigned and sad voice. "There is something such as the truth, and it will, thank...