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...straitened circumstances of the communities of her childhood, a dearth munificently filled by her own books and those of her proteges. Since 1989 Morrison has held a prestigious chair in the humanities at Princeton University, a bully pulpit from which she has, through her teaching, lectures and academic clout, affected the course of black-studies programs across the U.S. Says Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates Jr., a longtime friend: "There's no question that she's had an enormous influence in literary circles, but in addition she's an intellectual, and that's important as well...
...that roll call identified the most powerful people in America rather than the most influential (a more subtle concept), then the President would be at the top. Power and influence generally go hand in hand. Anyone who has the clout to make decisions with the stroke of a pen has influence over the way we think and live. But some people, particularly Presidents, are more notable for the former than the latter. Clinton is powerful. He can propose how to parcel out the federal budget, stock the federal courts and decide which uncooperative trade partners get spanked. Influential is another...
...power is clout, like the thud of an iron heel. Influence is sway, like being rocked in a hammock. But like the grass in Carl Sandburg's poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles...
News of the Justice investigation puzzled legal experts, who noted that Washington hasn't challenged industry shelf-space practices in more than a decade. Apparently Frito-Lay has become something of a victim of its own clout. "They've driven all their competitors out of business by being too successful," says William Leach, who follows the food industry for the investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette. "There's nothing unethical. They're just better at product development, marketing and execution. But there is no law against doing well." That, of course, is something the government is now trying to decide...
PUCC member Eric D. Albert '98 says that the council's special relationship with the administration and clout with the campus media place it in an ideal position to push for social change...