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...orders on his cell phone while smoking a cigarette. The puffing and the posturing are habits honed by a year of leading troops through hellfire in Baghdad. "People do what I say, when I say, how I say, and no questions asked," says Bunn in his staff-sergeant mode, stubbing out the cigarette. The city staff-all two of them-ruin the effect, however, by peering out a city-hall window and smiling indulgently at the boss. It is his first day back at work. They're just glad to have him back in one piece...
Spiegelman said that whatever the crossing, Harvard’s mode of transit for crossing the river—buses or light rail have both been discussed—has not been decided...
...over the last four years, Harvard has slowly moved toward its absolutist mode, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing—feudalism wasn’t so fun, either, and anyone who has sat in on one of Harvard’s endless committee meetings knows that it takes a long time to do very little here. But sometimes it’s important to call a spade a spade...
According to Gingo, the person who entered the list of recipients into the e-mail accidentally failed to use the blind carbon copy (BCC) mode, which would have hidden the addresses...
...visits old high school buddies in Boston on the weekends, Tom finds his way to New York City with classmates when he gets the chance. When they're relaxing during downtime, only Greg retains the vigilant intensity of a soldier. Tom and Kristen switch more readily into civilian languor mode, an artifact perhaps from their previous lives in sunny western states. The intensity level at West Point remains high, though, in part because of a new crop of instructors, tested by recent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, who have come back to teach cadets about the moral ambiguities and psychological...