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Former NASA consultant David Brin's lengthy rebuttal to SETI enthusiast's optimism about alien intentions concludes: " The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions.
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Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz quoted the first line of the poem in his book Failure Is Not An Option, at the end of Chapter 16, which deals with the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin is a big supporter of the Vision, but modified it somewhat, saying that he wants to reduce the four year gap between the retirement of the Space Shuttle and the first manned mission of the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Former shuttle commander and current NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden narrates the simulation and hosts the prerecorded pre-show.
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Former consultant Tom Peters co-authored, with less-flamboyant colleague Bob Waterman, the well-known book In Search of Excellence based on a project initiated by Ron Daniel in 1977.
Former Capital FM head and radio consultant Richard Park was brought in to increase the station's audience share.
Former FBI consultant John Bear called it a " fake accrediting agency set up by the Wyoming-based diploma mill, Hamilton University.
Former University of South Florida President and past Fla. Commissioner of Education Betty Castor serves as Bay News 9's Democrat Analyst, while political consultant and Irreverent View publisher Christopher Ingram serves as the Republican analyst.
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Former Georgia Tech provost Jean-Lou Chameau became the eighth president of Caltech on September 1, 2006, replacing David Baltimore who had served since 1997.
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Former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, David Frum, in his 2000 book How We Got Here: The ' 70s, wrote that Moon had granted the Times editorial independence.
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Former pupils of Monmouth School have included politicians Colin Moynihan and Derek Ezra ; international rugby players Eddie Butler and John Gwilliam ; and show jumper David Broome.
Former Canadian Secretary of State David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas were commissioned by Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong to investigate the allegations.
Former directors include Maxwell L. Anderson ( 1998 – 2003 ), David A. Ross ( 1991 – 1997 ), Thomas Armstrong III ( 1974 – 1990 ), and Juliana Rieser Force ( 1931 – 1948 ).
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Former Second Judicial District Court Judge David T. Caldwell ( 1925 – 1993 ), based in Jonesboro, was born in Saline and graduated from Saline High School in 1942.
* David Minge ( 1942 –), Former 2nd District congressman ( 1993 – 2001 ) and current judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Former keyboardist John Evan and organist David Palmer were de facto fired from the group, and former bassist John Glascock died soon after the recording of Stormwatch, which caused drummer Barriemore Barlow to leave the band in depression.
( Former Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist Stu Cook would join the band in 1986 and former Pablo Cruise guitarist David Jenkins in 1988.
Former students include the award-winning conductor David Atherton, TV and radio presenter Humphrey Burton, the American film composer Jeffrey Gold and the singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who secured a record deal with a four-track demo recorded in his college room in 1968.
Former students also include current MPs, Chris Grayling, Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions, and David Lidington, Minister for Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Former presenters include Susan Bookbinder, Daire Brehan, Jon Briggs, Jon Champion, Adrian Chiles, Edwina Currie, Fi Glover, Nick Hancock, Brian Hayes, Peter Heaton-Jones, Jane Hill, Des Lynam, David Mellor, Louise Minchin, Paddy O ' Connell, Jonathan Pearce, Nick Robinson, Sybil Ruscoe, Bill Turnbull, Sian Williams, Eamonn Holmes, Mark Saggers and Wendy Robbins.
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" Former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell has said: " Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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