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Your article on President Bush's disturbing habit of placing unqualified individuals in critical government jobs [Oct. 3] again illustrates what has become quite clear: Bush is more concerned with maintaining an insular bubble of yes-men than with running the country. It's too bad thousands of our poorest citizens have had to pay dearly for his cronyism...
...problems may well be how he communicates--or doesn't. The CEO mayor relies almost exclusively on an ultratight circle of confidants brought in from the halls of business, especially McDonald's franchise baron and fellow millionaire friend David White. State and federal officials say privately that Nagin's insular and politically inexperienced staff has hurt him when it comes to the kind of public relations and coalition building he'll need from here on out. "This administration tends to dismiss too many people, especially career political people," says New Orleans City Council president Oliver Thomas, a possible mayoral candidate...
...Nevertheless, Democrats can be expected to try to tie every Bush administration decision to her, since she has been at ground zero of an exceedingly insular White House since the Texans first came to Washington. This White House seems to welcome battles over executive privilege on the theory that they make the presidency stronger, and there could be a battle royale over papers Miers has seen or drafted. The day of Bush's first inauguration, she started as staff secretary, the official who manages the paper flow to and from the President and thus knows virtually everything about what...
...When Neil and I started doing comics together I used models very closely and felt that no one was looking at real people anymore and they were getting very formatted. Because of the very insular nature of the comic world, people were just looking at old comics and those people were just looking at older comics. Far back, someone had looked at people, but they had stopped...
...role of social mixer and equalizer on this campus. Students from a remarkable diversity of backgrounds live in close contact with one another. They share a library, a dining hall, and common spaces. Why then is it that Harvard allows its student body to segregate itself into small, insular groups even before arriving in its Houses? Upperclassmen have no reason or incentive to venture out of their blocking groups to interact with their Housemates and, as a consequence, few do. As a result, Houses remain divided among blocking group lines and the diverse communities, which could be such a crucial...