Word: doneness
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...safety net in place, no default call to arms that journalists around the world would heed and come to aid a brother. I’ve had to call governments, embassies, Congresspeople, all on my own, and I’m afraid I haven’t done a good enough job as far as Mohammed is concerned...
...trying to explain the recent performance and to forecast the future evolution of productivity. Much very good work has been conducted here at Harvard by Dale Jorgenson (my senior thesis adviser in 1975, by the way) and his colleagues, and other important research in the area has been done at the Federal Reserve Board.11 One key finding of that research is that, to have an economic impact, technological innovations must be translated into successful commercial applications. This country's competitive, market-based system, its flexible capital and labor markets, its tradition of entrepreneurship, and its technological strengths--to which Harvard...
...what amounted to the closest mention or condemnation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. "I believe that every Harvard student should have the opportunity to serve in the military, as you do, and as those honored in the past have done...
...surrounded by young, energetic people dedicated to someone they believe in; that I knew that thousands of people were in this together. It couldn’t all be over, and as I told Dorothy, “There’s a lot of voting left to be done...
...When Dorothy asked me to speak about the campaign at morning prayers in Memorial Church, I thought, for the first time, about what my experiences had taught me. In Dubuque, Bill White showed me that getting things done means not complaining, but coming up with the next best solution. One of Hillary’s Senate advisers, Kris Balderston, showed me how to learn an issue quickly and listen to people carefully. I learned that there are many things I cannot control, and it’s not worth fretting over what Chris Matthews says or what Frank Rich writes...