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...What's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics - the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big problems...
...same kind of problems,” Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn, said last month.A ‘SUBTLE SKILL’As president of a large and decentralized university, Faust will have to find means to build consensus among its many factions, an area in which Summers did not succeed—even with some help from Faust herself.After Summers drew wide criticism in 2005 following comments he made suggesting that women may have a lower “intrinsic aptitude” for science than men, Faust...
...president will have to build consensus while making decisions bound to alienate, lead a 17th century institution facing 21st century problems, and respect Harvard’s traditions while simultaneously making bold changes for the future. Faust is a woman in a man’s world—both as a historian of the Civil War South and now as the lone woman in a succession of 27 men. She is a woman who makes her living studying the past but who now must look to the future...
...another bad review. Feith got publicly slapped by the Defense Department's inspector general for developing pro-war intelligence on Iraq - outside of official channels - that now seems plainly wrong. The IG concludes that Feith's office, on a free-lance basis, made claims "that were inconsistent with the consensus of the intelligence community." The report said that Feith's shop exaggerated the purported links between Saddam Hussein's government and al-Qaeda. "That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war," said Sen. Carl Levin...
...satisfy their sporting passion. But soccer's reach extends across the entire spectrum of Italian life. Following the initial outrage of the officer's death, La Repubblica columnist Giuseppe D'Avanzo put it this way: "If you don't want to break the toy that creates an appetizing consensus for many (in politics, business, media), you need to hypocritically pretend to not see what Italian soccer wants and knows how to be: a world unto itself." Sounds like a religion indeed. And as Italians know as well as anyone, managing the relationship between Church and State is never a simple...