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Simmons, a former Congressman, casts himself as the go-getter. With 22 years of legislative experience, Simmons says he will be effective “from day one.” He is prepared: From 1981 to 1985, he was staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “I briefed Mitch McConnell when he first came to the Senate. The Senate is not a new institution to me,” Simmons said. But this experience may be a liability if voters want change. Still, Simmons argued, “Do you want someone in Washington...
...authoritarian past cannot be forgotten. "We are going back to a one-man show," says Nico Harjanto, a political researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. "This is more dynasty politics." Given that one of SBY's sons, at 28, was the largest vote-getter in the Parliamentary elections without ever having given an interview that might be a sign of things to come...
John C. Whitehead, former chairman of Goldman Sachs, described Gordon to Bloomberg as “a famous business-getter...
...entrepreneurship. “Jason is incredibly charismatic, and he has the right balance of substance and form,” says Nagaraj. “He’s got one of the most important qualities that entrepreneurs need to have: he’s a go-getter,” adds Roy I. Ben-Dor, another HBS student and mentor to Shah. Kendall says he has spoken to Shah once or twice about his program to compliment him on the site’s success. “It’s nice to see when high school...
Last year you made a record with Zooey Deschanel under the name She & Him. How did that project come about? I was doing music for a film that she was starring in called Go Getter. The director had an idea to put us in the studio together to record a Richard Thompson song. So we met in L.A. and got along really well and eventually she sent me her demos and I thought they were incredible, so I told her you know, "Let's make a record." She came up to Portland and it took about no more than...