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...victory reflected more than a year of careful plotting: harvesting candidates, husbanding resources, refining messages. But in the crucial last weeks, it also reflected the extraordinary relationship between the President and his political adviser of nearly 15 years. What does it take to persuade a President, who has a country to run and a reputation to protect and who prefers to go to sleep in his own bed, usually before 10 p.m., to plunge from state to state as though his own survival depended on it, when in fact the opposite is true? The sheer nerve of the White House...
...memories of the West Wingers make for fascinating history. Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's verbal alter ego, recalls that at the crucial moment of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, J.F.K. asked him and Bobby Kennedy to go to Sorensen's office to work out a reply to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's threatening letter, a response credited with defusing the nuclear danger. Porter, who is a professor at Harvard, worked out George H.W. Bush's education goals in his cramped, second-story office with then Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell...
...centerpiece of the last NATO summit, in Washington in April 1999, was the "defense capabilities initiative," which set out 59 areas - from field hospitals to tankers - where nations should beef up their arsenals. While most goals were achieved, "they picked the low-hanging fruit," admits a NATO official. The crucial big-ticket items remain: protection against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; better equipment for command, control, communication and intelligence; better combat support; and the hardware to deploy European soldiers quickly and effectively. It's no coincidence that these are exactly the things the Europeans need for their own E.U. Rapid...
Harvard, it is repeated ad nauseam, is filled with the leaders of tomorrow. Yet it is rarely discussed that one can learn far more about leadership from participating in serious team sports than from ferreting around in the stacks of Widener Library. In support of the crucial role athletics has to play in undergraduate life, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 cited the example of an alumnus he had just met at an event in New York. “[He was a] varsity soccer player, and now heads a division of 600 people...
...four years of high school attending University of Michigan football games, I had an expectation of what the “student section” at games should look, sound and smell like. A college football game meant crowds of students in insignia apparel standing up to watch the crucial moments, constant cheering, the ringing of keys and the smell of sweat and alcohol permeating the air. A typical Harvard game attracts a sprinkling of undergrads in H-Club t-shirts, clumps of inattentive student spectators engaged in side-conversations and the sporadic patter of polite clapping. The students...