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...News when it was a nascent operation, you've been a major part of both a mainstream media outlet - perceived by many as having a liberal bias - and then at a cable powerhouse perceived by many to have a conservative bias. Behind the scenes, is there a fundamentally different approach to news gathering...
...most places don't distribute resources this way. "My impression is that almost no one is using any mathematical approach," says Allen. Unlike the people who run hospitals or airports, election officials have not yet fully embraced concepts like queuing theory and modeling. Things have gotten much better in the Ohio counties that were most embarrassed by the 2004 elections, and Allen and Bernshteyn have helped those officials distribute their machines more sensibly. But it typically takes some kind of fiasco for locals to commit the resources that this approach requires...
...Cope with threats of violence. "If a bomb threat is phoned in, get as much information from the caller as possible," the manual directs. "If someone is known to have a weapon, have at least two election officers approach the individual together and simply ask him to leave the weapon outside...
...success of the HRC’s scholarly strategy still relies on an ability to circumvent conflict with friendly conversation. I experienced this approach first-hand the first time I met Motley, over two years ago in Annenberg Hall. At the time, he was angling for a freshman position on the Undergraduate Council. I represented a potential constituent. We sat eating cereal and discussing Harvard’s same-gender rooming policy, on which we held opposing views. A nearby classmate, overhearing our debate, suggested that the longer Motley persisted with the conversation, the more likely he was to lose...
...above-the-fray approach that was evident in the future senator belied an intensity and a brilliance that would put him on the path to stardom, former professors and classmates said. Known as a tireless worker with a gift for seeing both sides of an issue, Obama became a favorite of prominent faculty members and rose to lead the prestigious Harvard Law Review, accomplishments that would serve him as he left Cambridge and returned to Chicago...