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Aburdene, who has also co-authored bestsellers Megatrends and Megatrends 2000, said that gentler leadership is a necessity in an age where workers are more skilled. Citing a University of California study, she noted that women supply increasingly important interpersonal traits in greater measures than...
There's something else about that word, comp. What does it stand for? I've heard that it used to be short for "competition" but that sounded too scary. So someone, perhaps someone at Room 13, changed it to the gentler term, "competency." I'm not sure "competency" is a nicer word. It's certainly doesn't clarify anything. When you comp an extracurricular here, what kind of "competency" are you proving? It would depend on the extracurricular, of course. I have my suspicions...
Ralph Reed works to give the religious right a gentler face...
Ralph Reed works to give the religious right a gentler face...
Reed's goal is to give the movement a gentler, more catholic visage. He wants to make peace with mainstream Republicans while continuing the movement's war with secular liberals. The religious right must broaden its agenda, he believes, because "we have allowed ourselves to be ghettoized by a narrow band of issues like abortion, homosexual rights and prayer in school." Even the majority of Evangelicals, he argues, are more interested in taxes, crime and the quality of education. Becoming more ecumenical will entail making alliances of convenience with conventional conservatives who, for example, do not favor outlawing abortion. This...