Word: outgoingness
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There is no recent analogue to the madness - er, hopefulness - that has seized Obama's fans. Some journalists have been comparing him with F.D.R. and even Lincoln. To find a similar episode of enthusiasm for an incoming President, you might have to go back to 1829. The outgoing President, John...
Barack Obama appears to share F.D.R.'s instinctive grasp of crisis not as something to be managed but as an opportunity to forge an emotional bond with those he will lead. Will he denounce Bernard Madoff and the modern money changers? Confident enough to be gracious, the President-elect has...
President-elect Obama was the correct choice for Person of the Year. However one cannot ignore the impact of the shoe-throwing Arab journalist. His brazen move to hurl his loafers at the outgoing President will be remembered decades from now as a fitting send-off for a man and...
The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library acquired a substantial collection of materials in December centered around the musical, acting and political career of renowned Panamanian salsa singer Rubén Blades. Blades graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1985, and ran for the Panamian Presidency in 1994. He is...
ZS: Anyone from Bollywood would be hilarious. Or Larry Summers, that would be funny. And what about Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the journalist with a penchant for hitting outgoing presidents with his shoe! He can talk about which brand is most aerodynamic! And one last thing—who�...