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...cover-up, the public airing of infighting--yet the needle on Bush's thermostat has barely fluttered. Instead, he mildly conceded that "the FBI was an organization full of fine people that loved America" but "it needed to change." Even in private, advisers say, Bush has kept his cool amid revelations that have led some to call for Director Robert Mueller's head. As Bob Dole used to wonder, "Where's the outrage...
...authors describe one way that leaders can keep their balance and perspective amid active resistance. They call it "getting off the dance floor and going to the balcony." The point is to figure out what is really going on. But you can't stay in that posture, they stress. "Staying on the balcony in a safe observer role is as much a prescription for ineffectuality as never achieving that perspective in the first place...
...SHOP WITH A VIEW Amid a congested web of alleyways and devotional shops that make up the old city stands the 226-year-old Vishwanath Temple, commonly known as the Golden Temple for its gilded domes. Because it's Varanasi's holiest shrine, it's not welcoming to non-Hindus, who are considered impure. Armed guards at the periphery bark questions, demanding to know where you're from, and why you want to enter. The body pats, as much an antiterrorism measure as a search for concealed cameras (photographing the temple is a sacrilege), are disconcertingly thorough...
...incredibly proud to have represented the people of Maine in the Senate for almost 15 years, keeping their trust and confidence amid a period of political skepticism and cynicism,” Mitchell says...
...haven’t been happy here; I generally have. But through e-mail, I’ve discovered, I can try to recount the full breadth of my experience here: as a historical medium it has always been recording and capturing moments, while photos or journals, amid the hectic pace of my and everyone else’s Harvard life, have been much less thorough...