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...Webb's opposition to an invasion of Iraq predates the first Gulf War. "I thought we would empower Iran, and we have," he says. His views are precise but complex. They are based on a lifetime studying warfare, first in the Marines and then as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Navy. And there were moments in the two debates when Allen and Webb-especially Webb-seemed about to settle into the sort of serious discussion of Iraq that the nation desperately needs, but those moments were fleeting. Moderators interrupted, time limits were imposed, other topics were raised. And then...
...kids.” Rekha and her husband first met as undergraduates. “My husband and I met at Harvard and fell in love at Harvard,” she said. “Harvard has been very much part of our lives.” Ronald M. Soiefer ’75, the best man at their wedding, said, “I see the quiet courage that the family has shown. Every family, every person has a special story just like Michael has a special story.” Ronald E. Corcillo...
...general, operating on the extremities offers more options than operating on the body's core, but the dividing lines between levels of anesthesia can be blurry. Once you get away from major surgery, pain control and sedation are often mixed and matched according to patient preference. Says Dr. Ronald Pearl, chairman of the department of anesthesia at Stanford: "It's not uncommon when we do a spinal anesthetic, say for knee surgery, to ask the patients whether they want to be awake or asleep for it." Those who choose sleep do so not because they want to avoid the pain...
...confident that managers who hit it big one year are likely to stumble the next, so their goal is simply to beat a benchmark index (say, the S&P 500 or the Russell 1000) by a few percentage points a year. "We're about hitting lots of singles," says Ronald Kahn, who runs advanced equity strategies at Barclays Global Investors. The Casey, Quirk survey found that quants take about half as much risk as nonquants. Over time, that habit of not losing as much money in down years adds...
...influential works in American lit; without it, no Pulp Fiction. The 1946 movie expands the action with a long flashback about the gangster's prey, a haunted boxer called Swede (Burt Lancaster in his first movie). The 1964 version has murderous Lee Marvin tangling with the even more venal Ronald Reagan (in his last movie). The set also includes a third film, a short by renegade Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky...