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...some lessons from Mandela on both consistency and idealism. Like most Americans, I am extremely disappointed by our lack of leadership in this country and by the lack of true long-term solutions to the present state of the nation, both domestic and abroad. I imagine it was the belief in his ideals and principles that kept Mandela alive under unspeakable hardship. Our current and prospective leaders should never forget that it's idealism and consistency that truly distinguish the great leaders in our history, and not the current week's polls. Michael Osorio, Orlando...
...current presidential candidates should take some lessons from Nelson Mandela [July 21]. Like most Americans, I am disappointed by the lack of leadership in this country and the lack of long-term solutions to the present state of the nation. I imagine it was the belief in his ideals and principles that kept Mandela alive under unspeakable hardship. Our current and prospective leaders should never forget that idealism and consistency - not the week's polls - are what truly distinguish the great leaders in our history. Michael Osorio, ORLANDO...
...expect his position as dean to be all that different from his previous post as health minister. He emphasized that his tenure as minister was characterized by the use of scientific knowledge to guide policy. “For me, it’s all grounded in my firm belief that science and scholarship, not economic interest or short-term political gain, that will make the world a better place,” Frenk said. Although Frenk said that government styles of management tend to be more “vertical” and top-down as opposed...
...pull him aside and say, "Pull up your socks, boy." It is not necessarily inevitable that he end his life in a clinic in Morocco, totally decimated by drink. It is not inevitable that his sister abandon her rebellious engagement to Charles and accede to the family's tyrannical belief system. Waugh's whole narrative invites this kind of frustrated response. He wants to say something about the eternal values of the religious beliefs he converted to some 15 years before writing Brideshead. No matter how they inconvenience us, they are not, in his view, to be whimsically or lightly...
...believer cannot do it for himself. But however strongly unbelief may feel itself thereby justified, it cannot forget the eerie feeling induced by the words: 'Yet perhaps it is true,'" Ratzinger wrote. "In other words, both the believer and the unbeliever share, each in his own way, doubt and belief...