Word: taker
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...George O'Dowd himself. Helped by Christopher Renshaw's cabaret-style production and a dead-on performance as George by Euan Morton, O'Dowd's supple melodies and touching but tough lyrics seem to encapsulate the defiantly deviant club world of London in the early '80s: "Call me a taker/ I've got nothin' to give/ Call me a loser/ I'm just tryin' to live." Call Taboo a winner...
...terror. And this past May he clashed with India in a showdown that risked nuclear escalation; this time he curbed Pakistan's Kashmir insurgency in exchange for peace. Each time Musharraf has gambled, and so far his luck has held. "I was always a risk taker," he tells TIME from his perch in a gold-upholstered chair in the parlor of Army House, his Rawalpindi residence, surrounded by 18th century muskets and gilded sabers...
...Kashmiri shantytown as they watched a Pakistan-India cricket match on TV. Indian police suspect a Pakistan-based Muslim militia. If so, the provocation would rank with the mass murder that sparked the May face-off. Now more than ever, the world is counting on Musharraf the risk taker--who assures us his risks are calculated--to steer South and Central Asia from internal chaos to regional security, from the threshold of nuclear Armageddon to Pax Pakistania, from fundamentalist fervor to secular moderation...
Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 says Lewis is a prolific note-taker and thorough memo-writer, always careful never to miss a detail of any given issue...
...that they understand Summers is a bigger risk taker doesn’t mean that the departments themselves will change their behavior...