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...this, Redfield responded, "I think it's an unusual time when the Department of Defense can do things cheaper, quicker and more accurate than the private sector...
Harvard was quicker on restarts, smoother in the midfield, and played with more intensity than it had since defeating Columbia...
Imagine the political disaster if someone had the courage to say, "This country is in an inevitable decline as a political and economic power. Neither I nor my opponent can stop the process, but I will acknowledge it and attempt to cope." Quicker than you can say "malaise," that candidate would drop twenty points in the polls...
...rivals, to compare himself with -- as Mario Cuomo, for instance, had a swarm of Italian friends to gauge himself against. In Michael's formative early years, there was not only monos mou but also oi thyo mas ("we two"). When Stelian, the soft one, went under, Michael, the quicker one, must have made something of that. But we cannot know what -- he is quietly respectful of his brother's memory, and incurious. He has forgotten many of his brother's bizarre actions, including -- most significantly -- his suicide attempt. Stelian is off the map. His brother was not Greek after...
Brown, 54, is uniquely qualified for the role of power broker. He has reigned for a record seven years as speaker and self-described ayatullah of the California assembly. He is respected for a quick intelligence, a quicker tongue and long experience in mediating among competing interests. Says Jackson Campaign Manager Gerald Austin: "He's one of those people who can walk into a room full of other strong-willed political people, and everybody knows he's in charge...