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...Kirkuk. "It's what I do all day, every day." Rumsfeld doesn't have a name for his habit of withering cross-examination, but he does have an analogy. "My theory in skiing is, if you're not falling, you're not trying, and that's worth remembering. I teach that to my grandchildren." The former Navy instructor pilot tries a different metaphor: "You've got to work the edge of the envelope...
...They describe a man who "listens aggressively," who wants to watch you take a punch and see how you react. "He really does want to smack you," says an aide. "From that, he thinks, 'I will learn something I don't know and you weren't planning to teach me.' The truth might not tumble out of you otherwise...
...little lad in a working-class part of London, says his mother Maggie. From her, he inherited his green eyes, a penchant for tattoos (she has one on her back; he has several on his arms) and a love of the stage. She left a job teaching children when she was 40 to study and teach drama. "I don't know how he does it," she says, teary-eyed after seeing Cold Mountain. "I can't see the acting at all." While still in school, young Jude did lots of extracurricular theater, and his parents weren't surprised when...
...frustrated by her coldness. His stepmother Rose (Veanne Cox), a New York transplant, tries reaching out to the maid but settles instead for enlisting her help in disciplining Noah. Annoyed that he continually leaves change in his pants pockets, Rose tells Caroline to keep anything she finds. It will teach him a lesson; she could use the money...
...University community who may think Solomon is a parochial issue only involving gays and lesbians, think again. While the Solomon Amendment addresses Congressional displeasure over the barring of military recruiters, Congress may next decide to threaten withholding federal funding if universities distribute condoms, or offer abortion counseling or teach evolution. Challenging the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment is essential then to maintaining basic academic freedom at Harvard. President Summers fails as our leader unless he defends the very core principle on which the free exchange of ideas is based...