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When I showed him a draft of this speech, outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan advised me that such bleak language would send the stock market careening into a plunge worse than the dive following 9/11. And that, my fellow Americans, is the mindset that I wish to change with this speech. America is not defined by its invincibility, nor should it be. Vulnerability is not the trait that will destroy America; rather, the danger comes from purposeful blindness and denial...
...think it’s really kind of offensive, the attitude that getting married at this age is something people do because they don’t want to be alone,” she says. “At Harvard a lot of women get stuck in the mindset that the reason they don’t want to get married early or become involved in serious relationships is because they think it will interfere with their own ambitions in life. But I think if you are lucky enough, being engaged or married is something that helps encourage those...
...TIME: Do they know that they have to do more than make the Communist Party a broad church, that there's a mindset they have to change? LEE: Oh yeah, they're not stupid. Talking to them, I do not think that they believe their grandchildren will live under this system unchanged. They allowed the book Studying in America by Qian Ning, son of [former vice premier] Qian Qichen, to be published. He was working at the People's Daily, went to the University of Michigan on a scholarship immediately after Tiananmen, and he wrote the book three or four...
...make art and art-making more central to the Harvard experience. VES as a department is fairly atypical —the general flavor is unlike most other spots on campus. Is there any sense that a department within Harvard should conform to a kind of liberal arts mindset that VES may or may not precisely fit?Well, I think that the closer you get to the courses we give and the faculty who teach them, the less atypical we really look. The analogy shouldn’t really be with the humanities courses but with the sciences...
...there are many similarities. Students here are exceedingly bright and generally interesting, but there are plenty of interesting students elsewhere. Faculty here are competent and courses rigorous, but Harvard is by no means unique in that respect either. No, Harvard is defined and distinguished by the unique attitude and mindset of its students. Elsewhere, college lasts four years and is followed by an indefinite and unappealing period known as “real life.” Here, college is perceived as the first step into real life. Students believe what they are doing now will matter in the future...