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...thing that sets Kennedy apart, in an international context, is neither his character nor his family: it is that he had a long and productive career as a legislator. The record of his achievements in the Senate, over 47 years, is immense - groundbreaking laws on education, health care, employment, immigration and more. There's an old adage that you want to see neither a law nor a sausage being made, but just as there are brilliant sausage makers, so there are brilliant lawmakers, and Kennedy was one of them - immersing himself in the complex detail of policy, looking for deals...
...elected official with a national profile, who has the time and stamina for five hours of rehearsal six days a week. Most incumbents are too busy, most retired politicians are too frail, and most losing candidates are too forgotten. That pretty much narrows it down to someone whose political career was cut short after a big scandal and - since the show's core audience is older women - preferably one that didn't involve infidelity. (Put the tux back in storage, John Edwards...
...extremely urgent, text-messaging is not an appropriate way to communicate in a professional setting"); smiley-face emoticons; overly familiar salutations or sign-offs (forget "ciao" and "cheers"); or ungrammatical, unproofread messages. Jones warns that getting too frisky on social websites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter can be career suicide: "Job candidates across any number of industries--from bankers to police officers--have been weeded out due to inappropriate postings on these personal pages...
Tired of being nagged? Tough, says the author: "This isn't about what you want to do. It's about what you need to do to achieve the best results possible." Jones' shrewd book will give the nervously employed that requisite competitive career edge...
...January, making Brian Williams of NBC's Nightly News the lone male anchor on the Big Three evening broadcasts. Gibson, who joined ABC as a Capitol Hill reporter in 1975, never expected to preside over the network's flagship news program. He was nearing the twilight of his career when a chain of unexpected developments--Peter Jennings' death in 2005, the head injury Bob Woodruff sustained in Iraq in 2006 and Elizabeth Vargas' pregnancy later that year--thrust him into the anchor's chair. He acquitted himself well, landing the first major TV interview with vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin...