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What I didn’t realize at the outset was that every dispute was a dispute for me to settle, not because I have any real talent for it, but because, in some sense, it was “my” house...
...outset, Kerry told Jim Johnson, the Washington hand he had picked to run the search, that he had two concerns: secrecy and what Johnson called an "extreme focus" on the candidates' feelings. Kerry, who like Edwards had made it to the final round of Al Gore's deliberations in 2000, didn't want any of the candidates to go through the humiliation he had, waiting by the phone only to learn of Joe Lieberman's selection five hours after the Gore campaign started telling the media. He also told Johnson he didn't want to see any "phony names"--people...
...group had formed in September 2003 in response to University-wide budget cuts, outsourcing and hundreds of impending layoffs. From the outset, they took an extreme position against all layoffs at Harvard, citing the University’s $19.3 billion endowment as proof that the ongoing “belt tightening”—which led to layoffs this year of over 200 clerical and administrative workers around the University—was unnecessary...
...disappointing finish to a season that had so much promise at the outset. Harvard took five of its first six contests, with its only defeat coming in five games to Roger Williams. The Crimson had swept its opponents in each of its last three games and sat at 4-1 in EIVA play...
...goal from the outset was to try to educate his kids and make sure they had a better life than he did,” he says. “There was a real emphasis from the outset on the value of an Ivy League education...