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The President's staff didn't just bad-mouth the faith-based office behind closed doors. Their political indifference also kept us from getting the funding we needed so badly. No episode captured that more clearly than the 2001 negotiations over the President's $1.7 trillion tax cut. In those...
The President had been looking down at some papers about the event, but his head jerked up. "Nothing? What do you mean we've given them nothing?" He glared. "Don't we have new money in programs like the Compassion Fund thing?"
There is a method to this anguish. Self-deprecation and empathy are powerful political tools. Obama's candor is reminiscent of John McCain, who once said of his first marriage, "People wouldn't think so highly of me if they knew more about that." Obama's empathy is reminiscent of...
The current state of the Undergraduate Council (UC) has been described with many disapproving epithets: ineffective, unrepresentative, unresponsive, overly bureaucratic, and quarrelsome, to name just a few. Of all complaints, one is particularly damaging: When students look at the big picture of college life, the UC is simply irrelevant.Its irrelevance...
John's and Mary's lives go down unintended paths. And when the 1960s hit, the era dances away one by one with their kids. War, pregnancy, aimless adventure and the appeal of doing not much at all shape the Keanes' various fates, although shape may be too strong a...