Michael Walker
Michael Walker
along focused grad lost meeting services sight students
For so long GW focused on services for undergraduate students, (but) all along we always had more grad students. We had lost sight of meeting their needs.
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I would hope that as we go through the political process, the referendum and the next set of elections in December, it will become clear how secure the political machinery in Iraq is becoming,
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It was a completely different time for me. Now, the children are all grown ... They are all starting their families and well into their own lives. I thought if I was ever going to college, this would be the time to do it,
children families grown starting time
It was a completely different time for me. Now, the children are all grown ... They are all starting their families and well into their own lives. I thought if I was ever going to college, this would be the time to do it,
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It's a private dinner for a few friends of ours with the vice-president. It's by invitation-only.
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They broke this. They put a big green mark from the recycling truck here, knocked all this out. Knocked this light loose. This was cracked and broken.
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With the wind blowing like it is and the direction it's blowing in, yeah, I'm very concerned.
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There is, in my view, a nice line to draw between what could be described as 'ill-disciplined celebratory fire' and mischievous fire, which is where I suspect we are at the moment.
drawn environment
I was just really drawn to the campus, and to the environment we have here,
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I was just feeling good about myself, so I turned my head and gave them the old tongue trick,
He said 'I'm not going to tell you anything. You do want to want'.
future good listening lived reputation severe thinking
He had a reputation as a very severe disciplinarian, but he hasn't lived up to this. He has been listening a lot and thinking about the future of the Church. It has been a good start.
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But I think at that stage they were able to decouple in their own minds, as I was, the fact that the country was not necessarily behind the strategic decision to go to war, but once our boys and girls were out there, doing their various things, they would support them in that role,
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I have no doubt that, provided we can keep the training and the security sector reform going, and providing some of the reconstruction will continue at the present rate, we'll reach a point where we can see an Iraq that is self-governing, providing its own security and has a democracy of the form that the Iraqis want,