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...university presidents need to be Clintonesque?" asks David Greenberg, a Hofstadter Fellow at Columbia who has written widely on academia. "In certain respects, yes. They need to please a variety of different constituencies, to use the bully pulpit fearlessly and to have a gift for articulating issues in a way that builds a consensus of the academic community behind them...
...university] must be an oasis from the marketplace, and it also must be in some ways an oasis from the political arena," Greenberg says...
...With the Clintons, it's just sort of this big wish...to have him around," Greenberg says. "A premature nostalgia almost... Everybody wants a piece...
...large, good-natured, hardworking man whose competitive heart transcended even his impressive baseball stats. More than his great contemporaries Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, it was, a teammate says, Hank Greenberg you wanted at bat in the clutch. He was also, of course, the first great Jewish sports hero, at a time when anti-Semitism was open and virulent, and he carried that burden with exemplary grace too. His bat spoke for his people, and many boys of summer, now grown old, return that favor in this documentary's fond recollections. Sharing its subject's virtues, it is a lovely...
...GREENBERG (3), programmer. Now: makes golf software; EW: $20 million...