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xxxii Acknowledgements

The greatest professional acknowledgement must go to my students. Nothing
teaches you more than working on research with a bunch of very bright indi-
viduals. I look back on the people I had the great fortune to advise as graduate
students and I realize now how much they caused me to grow and how good of
people they were. I thank them publicly now for their enthusiasm for learning
and their patience with me as their professor and advisor. I certainly hope that
you enjoyed the collaboration as much as I did. The students who sat through
my classes deserve a special recognition as I experimented with teaching ped-
agogy much too often and they paid the price. I hope these people accept my
apology for my treatment of them and their time and that the production of this
work will in some small way justify their pain.
The final acknowledgement goes to my nuclear family; Mary, Kistern, Julie,
Erin, and Anne. Thank you for all you have put up with (more than I want
to admit publicly!) during the production of this book. While I certainly have
shown you the weakness of my character during this effort, I never stopped
loving you.