Word: insightfulness
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...years as a graduate student representative to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) has given me ample opportunity to observe the willingness of the Harvard Corporation to rise above principle when the occasion demands. I hope the following account will provide the Harvard community with greater insight into the politics behind the proposed change in University investment policy, and move some to make their opposition known at the ACSR open meeting scheduled for Thursday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Emerson...
...runner of mountain climber--or anyone who does things merely because they are there--Simpiro's account offers uncommon insight into the question of what motivates the endurance athlete. The sympathetic, curious reader may learn just a bit about how such people think. But to other readers, this 80-day trek that may have been completed by airplane in a few hours may seem nothing but craziness...
Next week's installment describes the growing cancer of Watergate; presents an insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles Nixon's closest aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, as well as the current Secretary of State, Alexander Haig; and tells of the dramatic death throes of Nixon's Administration. The third and last excerpt covers the dual dilemmas of competition and coexistence with the Soviet Union; memorable Kissinger encounters with the leaders of America's principal adversaries, Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung; and some maxims culled from a career in statecraft...
...speech to about 200 people, Kennedy accused the administration of "wasting the talents of the nation's women. "He did however anticipate an eventual lessening of intolerance and a society which will have learned to use "our greatest untapped natural resource-the ingenuity, the intellect, and the insight of all Americans who are women...
...tapes will not be known until the actual transcripts are released. Dan H. Fenn, Jr., director of the library, said this week they would "become the primary source on how John F. Kennedy's mind worked." Neustadt said that they would serve as "appropriate supplements to documents," stressing the insight from the tone of voice used by those taped. Their value also hinges on the quality of the tapes, he added...