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There have been six elections in which control of the presidency has switched parties during the television age. In five of those six, starting with John F. Kennedy's victory over Richard Nixon in 1960, the less experienced candidate won. The other four were: Jimmy Carter over Gerald Ford in 1976, Ronald Reagan over Carter in 1980, Bill Clinton over Bush the Elder in 1992, Bush the Younger over Al Gore in 2000. The one exception to the rule was a toss-up: Nixon and Hubert Humphrey had similar levels of experience in 1968. This sort of pattern may have...
Amid the gloom and doom is the surprisingly cheerful Delta Air Lines CEO Gerald Grinstein, who came out of retirement to take over the airline three years ago. Now that the No. 3 carrier is emerging from 19 months of bankruptcy restructuring on April 30, and with his legacy at the company securely in place, Grinstein, 74, plans to retire (again) this fall. Until then, he is savoring a victory lap. On May 3 he flies Delta to New York City from his home base of Atlanta to relist the airline on the New York Stock Exchange as DAL, with...
When deciding how Harvard should benefit the community, the University should listen to Gerald Autler, Senior Project Manager at the BRA, who said, “The emphasis should be on those things that Harvard can do better than other entities.” This does not mean, however, that Harvard should ignore other suggestions to improve the quality of life in the Allston community. Many of the community’s suggestions for public space, such as burying Soldiers Field Road, improving bridges over the Charles, and beautifying the area, are ideas that will benefit Harvard as well. Naturally...
Yeltsin was a unique political mix. He combined a folksy, Reaganesque simplicity with a Nixonian sense of political intrigue (and paranoia) plus a tendency toward accidents that recalled Gerald Ford. On one occasion he was too drunk to leave his plane for a planned meeting with Ireland's Prime Minister--even though, I was told, aides slapped him to bring him to consciousness...
However, BRA Senior Project Manager Gerald Autler said that the strategic plan was not legally binding, while a “cooperation agreement” would...