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Friends, colleagues tout Stony Brook's new president

By the time he graduated from high school, Dr. Samuel Stanley had lived in two countries and four states, his family traveling wherever his father's work as a cultural anthropologist took them - from Seattle to Chicago to Indonesia to California to Maryland.

"He did have to be adaptable," said his father, Samuel Sr., 85, who now lives in the Seattle area. "I think it prepared him for a lot...

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