What reaction to his research has he observed from different religions?
Always interested in politics, he observed from the sidelines rather than becoming actively involved, until the early 1990s.
"It is very interesting," he said, one afternoon, as he observed from a safe distance a Labrador waggling around my ankles.
He observed from "personal inspection" that "block after block of ordinary housing... has been smashed to rubble by repeated attacks by Seventh Fleet planes" -- exactly what I say in my chapter on the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum.
Fletcher had been speaking this week of his desire to banish memories of Scotland's previous trip to Prague in 2010, when he observed from the stand a 1-0 defeat while Craig Levein employed a 4-6-0 formation.
He observed from the bench that the case, which concerns a largely untested corner of copyright law, would establish whether ReDigi is legitimate or "just Napster with an in-between step".
As a rule he observed from afar as "his boys" blew up the American base at Khobar in Saudi Arabia, or the USS Cole in Yemen (he wrote a poem about that, the little dinghy bobbing on the waves) or the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, where in 1998 more than 200 died.
When he arrived, the construction for the Olympic site was well behind schedule, but the one thing he observed from his first day on the job was the overwhelming number of stray dogs.
"What he observed from Mark Warner's bipartisan take was never let a Democrat negotiate a bipartisan deal, because you'll turn them into an unbeatable monster," said a former Democratic congressman who knows Cantor.
Elsewhere, Cowper can write with buoyant humour and satiric relaxation, as when, for instance, he wryly observes from the safety of rural seclusion the evils of town life.
