Word: decisional
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It’s an inconvenient fact of nature that Harvard’s most celebrated weekends inevitably tend to fall on the eve of midterms. After a raging Head of the Charles, it was a shock to me that my Korean midterm (that seemed so far off in September...
I never had the pedigree, the years of rooting for Harvard athletics. And I like beer, and kegs, and tailgates that don’t end just as the game begins. Let’s just say, Harvard has never really been the place for me. Let me also say...
Barack Obama has prospered in this presidential campaign because of the steadiness of his temperament and the judicious quality of his decision-making. They are his best-known qualities. The most important decision he has made - the selection of a running mate - was done carefully, with an exhaustive attention to...
I asked Obama about gut decisions, in an interview on his plane 17 days before the election. It was late on a Saturday night, and he looked pretty tired, riddled with gray hair and not nearly as young as when I'd first met him four years earlier. He had...
The speech was followed by a more traditional form of damage control when Wright showed up in Washington still spewing racial nonsense: Obama cut him loose. And while Obama has followed a fairly traditional political path in this campaign, his strongest - and most telling - moments have been those when he...