Word: mindedness
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The Freshman Urban Program T-shirt captured the wit and energy that characterized my first week at Harvard. In addition, it gave me membership in a group of service-minded individuals and a uniform with which to recognize them. I laundered the shirt following the instructions my mother had given...
Bok had the right politics, opposing Vietnam and generally seen as liberal-but-not-too-liberal. He had the right scholarly credentials, including many book titles to his credit. Most of all, he managed to work well with a conservative, faculty and a reform-minded student body, while making sure...
Two and a half years later, with the shops well stocked and the streets clean, a fit and rested President assumed that a similar reception awaited him--and with it the chance to demonstrate his appeal beyond the reform-minded enclaves of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Instead Yeltsin was clobbered...
As Russians continually point out, America has been in the business of electing Presidents for more than 200 years, while Russians have had less than a decade to learn the trade. The excuse has also often been made that authoritarian rule is more suited to a nation as large as...
Start with what people know. They know you're experienced, they know you're an adult, they can see the flintiness. But they don't know if you have the presidential temperament, that you're a big, good-natured, stable, tough-minded optimist. You also need to show that you...