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Faust made her first public comments as president-elect at a 4 p.m. news conference at the historic Barker Center, the University's humanities hub. "I'm not the woman president of Harvard," Faust said, with a bust of John Harvard looming over her. "I'm the president of Harvard...
...press conference by President-elect of Harvard Drew Gilpin Faust just took place in the Barker Center, soon after the Board of Overseers approved the search committee's choice...
Jeffrey Gitomer often sounds more like a carnival barker than a business guru in his best-selling books on the basics of salesmanship: "As you study these principles, your sales will increase. As you implement these principles, your sales will begin to take off. As you master these principles, your sales will skyrocket." Step right up, folks, and make your quota...
...mythologizing the man behind it. Iain Dale, who writes a Conservative blog, speaks of Cameron's "Kennedyesque glamour." Cameron and his wife Samantha - the daughter of a baronet, who sports a tattoo of a dolphin on her ankle - are among London's most sought-after party guests. Says Gregory Barker, a Tory M.P. and member of Cameron's campaign team: "People sniff Camelot...
...Many Tories of Cameron's generation believe that their party needs to reclaim the middle ground so brilliantly colonized by Blair and distance itself from the fiercely ideological course it charted during the Thatcher era. "We're seen as the nasty party," says Barker. To revamp that image, Cameron has engaged in conspicuously un-Tory-like behavior, traveling widely and posting a confessional blog at www.webcameron.org.uk. He's promoting a doctrine he calls "modern, compassionate Conservatism," which is "about helping those people who can get left behind." In a nod to a nation where opposing global warming has become...