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...British colony called the Gold Coast gathered to witness the founding of their new nation a half-century ago, they carried not only their personal hopes and fears but also the aspirations of a continent. As the first colony in sub-Saharan Africa to break away from its foreign master in the post-1945 era of independence, Ghana was the symbol of a land throwing off its shackles, the first breeze of what British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would later dub "the wind of change." "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation...
...decided to get there), developing another option (what Ury calls Plan B but Yes fans will recognize as BATNA--best alternative to a negotiated agreement) and making it easy for people to agree with you (Ury holds up Disney CEO Bob Iger as a master of letting others save face). Ury also includes ways to say no without saying no--I would rather decline than do a bad job; I have plans--which can be handy whether you're saying no to your best client or your overbearing in-laws...
Despite his wonkish appearance, Calderón is a savvy operator. Born into a provincial, lower-middle-class family, he won scholarships to top Mexico City schools, earned degrees in law and economics and later received a master's in public administration from Harvard. His father, a schoolteacher, helped found the National Action Party (P.A.N.) in 1939, but the party was shut out of power by the dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which ruled Mexico from 1929 until 2000. The elder Calderón left the P.A.N. in the 1980s because he felt it had abandoned its Roman Catholic ideals of social...
...entire social circle was set before I even knew I had one—not out of some class-conscious master plan by my parents or anybody else’s, but by the bounds of polite society. Virtually everybody obeyed the same set of rules, designed to minimize anxiety all round. I have spent whole nights in the company of some friend-of-a-friend without ever looking them directly in the eye—much better than embarrassing everybody with public displays of friendliness...
Kirkland House Master Thomas Conley said that Kirkland is looking forward to having more of its members in the House...