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...Reagan Administration official who believes the U.S. should "send American forces into harm's way only if the nation is directly threatened." Webb and his allies don't oppose all military action, but they vehemently oppose efforts to forcibly remake the world. In Iraq's wake, one of the core anti-Blairite arguments is that real internationalism means understanding what other societies want for themselves, rather than seeing them as clay waiting to be molded in the U.S.'s image...
Golf and Nike were not obviously made for each other. Indeed, everything about the golf business was contrary to Nike's corporate DNA. Its core business was footwear and apparel, but golf was driven by equipment. Nike distributed to large national accounts such as J.C. Penney and Foot Locker, while golf products were sold in pro shops and specialty retailers that did nowhere near the volume of business that Nike was used to handling. "The only way to run golf successfully was to run it totally separate from the rest of the company," Nike's Wood says...
...sell our home as we departed for college. Rather than take a year off before school, I just wanted to move on, so I hid my issues behind the exciting change that is the first year at Harvard. Even after I failed the midterm for one of my Cores, and skipped the midterm for another, I still couldn’t bring myself to get help. I knew something was wrong, but I kept deluding myself into thinking that I could and would fix my academics, and improved mental health would follow miraculously. On April 12, my freshman dean contacted...
...Faculty members spent nearly an hour debating whether to add the word “history” to the “Culture and Belief” category of the program that could replace the Core Curriculum as early as Fall 2008. The amendment, initially backed by 65 professors, ultimately failed in an 88-68 vote...
...Bush’s onetime head speechwriter, took a few dozen undergraduates on a two-hour tutorial about how to “take a colorless, passionless, humorless lump of words and somehow mold that into a speech that has life and lift.” Having a clear core message—“preferably one with news value”—and conducting thorough research are keys to a successful speech, Winston said. So are personal anecdotes—but “make sure they’re accurate, and don?...