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...Watkins has captured the essence of leadership: humility and an ability to admit mistakes. If I hadn't known she was describing Lay's fatal flaws as the leader of Enron, I would have concluded she was describing Bush's fatal flaws as the leader of the U.S. We taxpayers are the stockholders and customers of our government, and we owe it to ourselves and our progeny to ask, the next time we go to the polls, whether we have learned from the failures of our leaders. Mimi Barron Fredericksburg, Virginia...
...developed an equally overdone hatred for sissies, "cripples and consumptives," for anyone who could not measure up physically or who reminded him of his childhood shortcomings. He even told his sons he'd rather see them dead than have them grow up to be weaklings. He could never admit to frailty in himself. That was one reason his charge up Kettle Hill in the Battle of San Juan Heights with the Rough Riders, the volunteer cavalry unit he organized to fight in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, was so important to him. It proved to the world--and himself...
Watkins has captured the essence of leadership: humility and an ability to admit mistakes. If I hadn't known she was describing Lay's fatal flaws as the leader of Enron, I would have concluded that she was describing Bush's fatal flaws as the leader of our nation. We taxpayers are the stockholders and customers of our government, and we owe it to ourselves and our progeny to ask, the next time we go to the polls, whether we have learned from the failures of our leaders. MIMI BARRON Fredericksburg...
...speech was about Iraq, and he was interrupted by a half dozen standing ovations as he compared Iraq to Vietnam, arguing that both wars were framed as parts of larger global conflicts (the war on terror and communism), but were prolonged and extended by political leaders who couldn't admit their policies had failed. "They are the two most failed policy choices in American history," Kerry said. He called for setting a date for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq, and took a thinly veiled swipe at Clinton. "It's not enough to argue with the logistics or to argue...
...think [Maris's] home run record still stands," Dorgan said during Commerce Committee hearings last year on steroids and baseball, "and that is a sad comment on baseball." Appearing before the committee, Sosa denied using steroids, and McGwire refused to answer questions about steroid us (though he did admit to previously using the legal supplement androstein). Bonds has repeatedly denied knowingly using any performance-enhancing drugs...