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Annan's critics find his outlook naive. His aides even joke about his world view, calling it "Star Trek Planet," after the show on which Russians and Scots worked merrily on dilithium-crystal drives as their ship shot through space at warp speed. That world is as remote as transporter beams. Annan's critics also lash him for his willingness to "do business" with anyone. When he returned from negotiations in Baghdad in 1998 and mildly said he had "a good human rapport" with Saddam Hussein, the White House shrieked. Others said he sounded like Neville Chamberlain praising Hitler. Annan...
...McCain and his family are all too aware, his outlook for recovery depends in large part on how deep the new melanomas are and whether they have spread. Surgery cures 95% of malignant melanomas that are confined to the top layer of skin. Once the cancer penetrates farther or reaches the lymph nodes, the chances of survival decline rapidly. Fortunately, McCain's lesions appear to be new growths that are unrelated to each other or to the melanoma he had removed...
...Gannett has a very definite outlook on how a newsroom runs," says Gary Jacobsen, editor and publisher of the Arlington Morning News in Arlington, Texas, who has worked for the company on and off over the years...
...When you're there for a while you adapt to that outlook," Jacobsen says. "Bob did the same thing and I did the same thing...
...notebooks are vital to understanding Graham's outlook on life. His half brother Phil married Katharine Meyer, whose father owned the Washington Post, and the couple were at the epicenter of the Washington social whirl of the 1960s. But at 49, Phil, a manic-depressive, killed himself. Bob Graham was 27 at the time. "Phil's legend was both inspiring and intimidating," says a person who knows Graham well and asks to remain anonymous. "After you see your brother commit suicide, one of the things you seek is control. No wild behavior, no profanity, no risk, loudness or recklessness...