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...remember [Immelt],” says Shapiro, who taught the CEO when he was just a first-year. “[He was] very bright, very capable, very well rounded....He spoke well in class and stood out as an especially good listener...
...Lloyd Parry writes as if he has failed some essential test of bravery that, say, George Orwell would have passed. Perhaps, though few would have stood fast so long. But Lloyd Parry knows that Indonesia was far more than his own personal crucible. It was the courage of ordinary Indonesians and East Timorese, not foreign journalists, that stemmed the insanity and helped transform the region. His years there were indeed a time of madness, but madness, like fear, does not last forever...
...past four years, many different blueprints have been discussed for the memorial site at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, where the World Trade Center once stood...
...some still see it--for precipitating Nixon's August 1974 resignation belongs as well to other journalists who doggedly pursued the story; to U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica, who pressed participants in the break-in to confess Administration involvement; to special prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski, who stood firm against White House interference; to the Senators and Representatives whose questioning on television brought the Administration's dirty dealings to public light; to the Supreme Court, which ruled that a President was not above the law when he tried to hide damning tape recordings confirming the cover...
...Constructing hides so close to the weapon was too risky, some of the men thought: they could keep watch just as effectively, and more safely, from further away. "There were other places to hide,'' the trooper says. The leader disagrees: "There was nowhere f______ else," he tells Time. He stood firm, the hides were built, and the men took their places, three of them lying behind and partly under each bush. "They were the sort of bushes you see in a cartoon," says the trooper, "where you could pick them up and walk around." Some of the men were convinced...