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...Institute of Politics (IOP) hosted a conference last week for 20 incoming mayors from large cities nationwide, featuring three days of workshops and seminars to help participants maximize their impact as city leaders. The Seminar on Transition and Leadership for Newly-Elected Mayors ran last Wednesday through Friday at the Kennedy School of Government. The biennial, non-partisan program, first held in 1972, is co-sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. “The goal of the conference is to help mayors think about current issues,” said IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen, a former governor...
Juliet S. Samuels’ opinions of the Institute of Politics (IOP) (“The Greasy Poll,” op-ed, Nov. 30) seem formed by her limited involvement and her hunger for formal debate. They are not bad opinions and are certainly interesting. However, the evidence she offers of diversity at the IOP is scanty at best and shows that she has not undertaken any serious investigation of IOP diversity...
...introduced the mayor, but had trouble pronouncing his name. “It’s my great honor to mispronounce his name here,” Ellwood joked afterwards as Villaraigosa laughed. All three of the night’s introductory speakers—including Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Jeanne Shaheen and Beverly O’Neill, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors—had high praise for the featured guest. “He is unafraid to ruffle feathers,” Ellwood said. “He fundamentally believes in doing the right thing...
Juliet S. Samuel ’09 lives in Wigglesworth Hall. She is a liaison for IOP Fellow Adam Nagourney...
...Graham brought a little Margaritaville to Cambridge last month. Jimmy Buffett, a long-time friend of the former senator, came to Graham’s IOP study group to speak about celebrities in politics. In the past, Graham and Buffett have dressed as each other for fundraising events. They are also tied in more institutional ways. In 1981, then-Florida Governor Graham appointed Buffett to be director of a statewide “Save the Manatees” program. Buffett returned the favor by featuring the governor in his music video “Who’s the Blonde...