Word: coughlinism
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...Libby can successfully overcome Coughlin and Sarokhan, there will be still more Harvard blood to spill...
While Dunay tries to be calculating, some of his peers and potential future political competitors are trying to be just the opposite. Coughlin, for instance. “Some students are under this illusion that their political career will be determined by every step they make here at Harvard,” he says. “If I don’t join the right clubs, if I don’t meet the right people, major in the right subject, then I get a late start in the game. It’s not a game...
...title of public servant. “But,” she says, “I have faith in the fact that I could be a public servant. I’m a dreamer, yeah. But I try to keep my feet on the ground.” Coughlin, too, has faith in himself. This faith is especially apparent when he explains just how sure he is that he’ll one day be president. Without pausing for more than a few seconds, and certainly without dropping his intently straight-on gaze, he answers...
...isn’t there something to be lost in expecting to gain too much? “Right now, my idealism is high-risk, high-reward,” Coughlin says. “I’m young. If you’re not idealistic when you’re young, there’s something wrong with...
Whether either one of them knows it or not, Sean Warren Coughlin and William Jefferson Clinton have a lot in common. Just as an adolescent Clinton prophesied greatness for himself, young Coughlin believes he is fated to ascend to the highest ranks of the political hierarchy. And just as Clinton’s background was anything but moneyed, socially elite or even white-collared, Coughlin hails from an “average American family” whose roots are, he says, “very, very blue collar.” His father is a carpenter, his mother an administrative...