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Bill Drayton, 57, is widely credited with pioneering charitable support for "social entrepreneurs"--innovators whose ideas can leverage small cash investments into large and self-sustaining improvements in a society's health or education or housing. "We really don't want to be mistaken for a foundation," Drayton says somewhat disdainfully. "Philanthropy has been dominated by governments and foundation bureaucracies that have not evolved quickly enough and don't adapt well to changing demands from the field. We need to invent new institutions...
When running for the Senate, there's a problem in being the Congressman Most Likely to Be Mistaken for a Page. You may no longer need a stentorian voice or mane of white hair to graduate to a seat in the American House of Lords, but a little gravitas, a bit of Olympian detachment or at least a few outsize personality quirks help. Hillary has the latter in spades and rock-star fame. And while Rudy Giuliani may have been too knee-in-the-groin nasty to attract all the anti-Hillary votes, the fresh-faced Lazio could be just...
...When you are in a position of administrative authority, your musings aloud can be mistaken for firm declarations of policy, so you have to be conscious of what you say. If I have felt a monitor on what I have expressed as provost, it is not from any political pressure, but from an effort to be accurate and to avoid misleading others. I have always felt free to express my views," Fineberg says in response...
...Schlesinger seemed to feel this mistaken position of the faculty concerning ROTC was symptomatic of Harvard's disconnection with the real world...
...deal with the question of on whose behalf they might have acted. It had been suspected for a long time that the Libyans might have been acting for someone else, and Iran had always been the prime suspect." Behbahani suggested that the attack was a retaliation for the mistaken shooting down by a U.S. warship of an Iranian airliner earlier in 1988. "The question remains whether he'll be able to prove these allegations," says Dowell. "There's always the question of whether he's selling that story to make himself more attractive to the U.S. in his quest...