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...jump into a job like that and hit the ground running is really small.”Smith declined to comment on whether Gorodentsev is under consideration for a permanent position as dean of administration and finance or any other post within FAS.“I have no idea whether she’s being considered for other positions, but I certainly hope so,” said Stephen M. Kosslyn, FAS’ dean of social science. “She’s very strategic, very smart, and very practical—and that?...
...healthy scheming about how to get my car up here and how to keep it up here. I’ve spent much of the rest of the time suppressing the urge to bore my friends with long soliloquies on why turbocharging a daily driver is a bad idea from a reliability standpoint, or why power-to-weight ratio is way more important than raw horsepower, or why…sorry, am I boring you? I’ll stop now. My obsession started early. I subscribed to Car and Driver in fourth grade. I was crushed when...
...either called a work of speculation - "What if something happened?" "What if somebody did this?" - or a practical utopia. We haven't had many practical utopias. Russell Jacoby, a professor out in California, wrote a book called The End of Utopia in 1999, which argues that the idea of imagining better futures has diminished, as we wallow more and more in our desperate state of societal and governmental decay. So I tried to revive the genre, so to speak...
...mention your group of the superrich. How did you come up with that idea, with those characters? First of all, the civil rights movement, contrary to popular impression, was funded in significant part by superrich people. The right-wing movement in this country is funded by people like Richard Scaife, who's put in a quarter of a billion dollars at least. I decided to pick [my characters] because they all brought something to the table: Barry Diller, media; Ted Turner, media; George Soros, the Open Society Institute and institution-building; Peter Lewis, insurance; Joe Jamail and Bill Gates...
...jumping-off point for the story is the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. Was that the genesis of the book idea for you as well? It was one of them, yeah. Another of them was how demoralized they were, these superrich older people that I talked to. I said to them, "How could you be demoralized? You're sitting on 5, 6, 8 billion dollars. For a billion dollars, with field organizers in every congressional district, you can get a single-payer health-care system.' What's a billion dollars to these people...