Word: gergen
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...departure from the partisan tone of today’s politics. The book outlines six steps the country needs to take in order to return to its core values of equality and opportunity, Kamarck said. But other panelists questioned whether optimism is likely to promote change. David Gergen, the director of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, said Al Gore ’69 has successfully used the threat of impending disaster to publicize the cause of tackling global warming. “You have to create a burning platform and the sense that...
...last year at age 76. These awards, known as the Gleitsman International and Citizen Activist awards, will now be handed down by the Center for Public Leadership. The awards have stirred occasional controversy—recipients include Ralph Nader and Jack Kevorkian. Center for Public Leadership Director David R. Gergen said the membership of the awards committee will not change and will continue to honor what Gleitsman stood for when giving the awards. “We ought to be daring because agents of social change are often controversial. That goes with the territory,” said Gergen...
...dinner panel discussion last night, moderated by Kennedy School professor and program co-chair David R. Gergen, Summers repeatedly criticized the current Bush administration and said he was pessimistic about the world economy, at least in the short...
Prompted by Gergen, Summers offered leadership advice alongside his policy prognosis, saying he did not foresee his own career path, which included a stint as Treasury secretary. He hesitated, however, to offer himself as a model...
...media, the executive branch, and Congress. Of the 12 sectors respondents rated, those three received the lowest marks. Even the institutions that fared best—the military and medicine—received barely passing grades, with respondents expressing only “moderate” confidence. David R. Gergen, the Center for Public Leadership’s director, said he found the results disturbing. “There’s something more profound here than unhappiness with the president and the war in Iraq,” said Gergen, a former advisor to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan...