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...limits of Bush's management style will ultimately be determined by the demands of leadership. Some aspects of his style--such as his penchant for secrecy--reflect the weaknesses that made the country vulnerable on Sept. 11. And his aversion to risk has made him cool to proposals to revamp the FBI and CIA. Richard Shelby, top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says, "If a lot of information from the FBI, CIA, NSA and Immigration had been put together at a central place, they may have thwarted the attack of Sept. 11." Bush may have to rethink parts...
...case, Uribe's rightward leanings weren't a campaign liability. The 18,000-member FARC lost its sheen as a populist insurgency years ago because of its record of taxing and protecting the cocaine business and its penchant for gratuitous kidnapping and indiscriminate killing--like last month's bombing massacre of 119 villagers in a church. When the government broke off fruitless peace talks with the rebels in February, Colombians' exasperation catapulted Uribe's candidacy. His chief promise: to professionalize Colombia's weak and inept military and double its size to more than 100,000 fighters...
...line with his penchant for feedback, Lewis has instituted a more comprehensive review system for the senior tutors...
...coursing through their veins. The lush lacrosse players of the Mather 12th floor, no matter how many kegs of beer they consume in one sitting, will still show up in the dining hall for an early breakfast surrounded by abstruse physics formulas. My roommates and I, disregarding our pronounced penchant for parties, cloistered ourselves in our rooms this spring preceding a number of senior year rights-of-passage: thesis deadlines, orals and general exams. All the things that make us fun and normal (like other college kids from Boston College and Boston University) are tempered with bookish propensities, obsessive-compulsive...
...cardiologist with a penchant for ham radio employs his hobby to save the life of a person who was shot by pirates while at sea in the Caribbean...