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...waged via endless meetings and telephone calls during the past eight months between Rumsfeld and Franks over exactly how to run this war. As with any battle plan, the military has raised some doubts; one officer estimates that as many as 1 in 3 senior officers questions the wisdom of a pre-emptive war with Iraq. The reasons aren't surprising: the U.S. military is already stretched across the globe, the war against Osama bin Laden is unfinished, and even if the march to Baghdad goes quickly, a long postwar occupation looks inevitable. The military's assessment of the chances...
...contractors, architects, and in Harvard’s case, faculty and residents. “I envision my group as a service organization,” explains Gordon of the Allston Development Group, which now includes 20 staff members. “We’re not the wisdom or the decision-makers behind Allston. Our job is to be the facilitators.”Gordon says he faces the challenge of setting a pace for planning that allows all voices to be heard without getting bogged down in discussions.“He brings a lot of momentum...
...Prince Andrew explains: "People say to me, 'Your life must be very strange.' But of course I've not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me. The same way with the Queen. She has never experienced anything else. That life, that knowledge, that wisdom is purely natural to her." Pamela Hicks agrees that the Queen, while gratified if people respond to her work, does not seek a conventional sense of happiness in it. Duty is its own reward: "She is very religious, but she is also philosophical. She feels she must do the job she has been...
Judy T. Greenberg ’07 said she once had a crush on a boy with “massively asymmetrical” thumbs, breaking with conventional wisdom that symmetry is beauty. But a new study by Radcliffe fellow Grazyna Jasienska goes one step further, linking hand symmetry in women not only to beauty—but to greater fertility...
...what happened was a natural outcome of a process of which I was a major part. There are things that can prepare you for doing this job - your wisdom or lack of it, your experience or lack of it, your personality, your frame of mind. But nothing totally prepares you for it because you've never been there before - you've never been in the place where as President Truman said, ?The buck stops here.? It's your decision that will count. I hope that I'm as ready as I can get. I hope that I'm as capable...