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...Mayor's Skill SetGiuliani and his aides have said he has been "studying Islamic terrorism" for 30 years. This is an exaggeration. As a prosecutor and Justice Department official in the 1970s and '80s, Giuliani had many successes - against white collar criminals and the Mafia. He did not direct major terrorism prosecutions that led to convictions. As Mayor, he worked relatively closely with the FBI, according to James Kallstrom, former FBI assistant director in charge of the New York office. "The four years that I was there, we had a fabulous relationship," says Kallstrom. "He was able to do many...
...labor: while men hunted, women gatherered, and they had to be able to spot ripe berries and fruits. Another theory suggests that women, as caregivers who need to be particularly sensitive to, say, a child flushed with fever, have developed a sensitivity to reddish changes in skin color, a skill that enhances their abilities as the ?emphathizer...
...Sarkozy embrace comes at a moment of what he terms "a changed balance of power" - an embattled, weakened Bush seeking a bit of positive PR via an emphatic validation from his French peer, while the popular Sarkozy continues to impress the French with his high-profile displays of diplomatic skill by making nice with the American superpower...
...Self-sustenance was definitely a useful skill to learn, but something was missing. This isn’t a postcard about how I learned to cook; I’m still pretty bad at it. Let’s just say that the satisfaction of having made them myself didn’t make my dishes taste any better...
During his time at Harvard, Stein cultivated his filmmaking skill set by acting and directing in Harvard theater productions and serving as the managing editor for Let’s Go travel guides...