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Well, the faculty at the Kennedy School of Government was pretty good when I was there. The most interesting class I had was Persuasion, and I use a lot of the points I learned there on the air to try to get people to listen to you, and to make your point so that they understand...
...white, and yes, I spent years in a factory. But I've never had a beer during a lunch break (it probably would have got me fired), I have no problem with young executives, I actually like endive salad, and while driving my pickup truck, I listen to National Public Radio. I have no problem with a presidential candidate being perceived as élitist and would not vote for him if he typified the "lunch-pail wing" you described. I think Murphy should step off his pedestal a little more often; all white, blue-collar workers are not the same...
...What are you going to do with it?' " he says. "And we tell them, 'Put it back as near as possible to where we got it.' They look at us suspiciously and say, 'You can't do that - I don't want it near me!' And I just say, 'Listen, this is where these creatures live. They were here long before...
...stations. He grumbles about the "flavor-of-the-month mentality" among music fans. And he shows his age - endearingly - by refusing to own an iPod. His strange argument, contradicted every time he draws up a set list comprising songs from different phases of his career, is that you must listen to songs in the context of the album they appear on. "Just to take bits and pieces of this and that I think is not as enriching an experience," he says. Jarreau is also more than a little blasé about reaching out to fans via the crucial medium...
...propped up apartheid for decades and that operates a plant with the dubious distinction of being the world's biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide. Only a die-hard optimist could talk up such a company, right? Meet Pat Davies, head of South African energy giant Sasol, and listen to him speak about its prospects. "We're coming into a sweet spot, a unique position," he says with a calm, easy smile. "We're in the lead position worldwide in what we do, and there's enormous interest in us right...