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...authors, who both teach at the Wharton School, extol the virtues of this relationship art, which they define as the ability to win over colleagues, clients and customers without coercion, using emotionally intelligent persuasion. The authors draw on the experiences of political figures like Napoléon and Abraham Lincoln, as well as famous businesspeople...
Sixty years later, the Democrats faced another incumbent President: war hero Ulysses Grant. To oppose him they tapped Horace Greeley, an eccentric idealist and newspaper editor. Greeley had been an opponent of slavery (he urged Abraham Lincoln to abolish it even before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued) and a supporter of protective tariffs--all anathema to the Democrats of his day. But after the Civil War, Greeley's idealism found a new cause: reaching out to white Southerners by ending Reconstruction. The Democrats, eager to restore the political power of their Southern soul mates, were willing to overlook Greeley...
...birth as an idea 400 years ago in the Jamestown settlement to how we vote on American Idol. The more than 600 images range from the intimate back rooms of history to the grandest of public moments. We see a young Teddy Roosevelt watching through a window as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege marches down New York City's Fifth Avenue as well as Martin Luther King Jr. transfixing hundreds of thousands on the Mall in Washington...
...residential golf market--with million-dollar homes and six-figure memberships--has shown a resilience, while the lower and midrange suffers with the housing market in general. "The strength of the upper end of the marketplace continues to astound everyone," exclaims Johnny Harris, president of Charlotte development company Lincoln Harris. "The supply may be overdone in the less expensive locations, but there are golf courses still being built all over this country at the absolute highest end, which is astounding...
...among white Evangelical Protestants, the war is described as very important by 66%, compared with 56% for social issues. That can only help the former New York City mayor whose local war on terrorism was viewed as more competent than Bush's and who famously ejected Yasser Arafat from Lincoln Center and practically wore a cape to work as an urban crime fighter...