Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president of any university in the world, and you're looking for a new faculty member, the first thing you'll do is get a hold of a list of the Radcliffe scholars. And the first person you'll call is the dean of the Radcliffe Institute," he said of the Institute of the future...
...know someone who writes down the names of everyone they meet at Harvard on an index card and files it for future use, you will by the time you graduate. And you know what? That "someone" probably won't be a particularly bad person. Cordially friendly to everyone, always ready for a chat, that name-filer will enjoy your company and also happen to note you as a future contact. You don't need to be a cut-throat, uncaring person subsumed by ambition to take advantage of one of Harvard's best resources: the people you'll meet here...
...issue is, How well can anyone ever know another person," Bradley asks, "if they only know that person in a public context?" We're sitting on the second floor of a cheerful bookshop in North Conway, N.H., sparring about the politician's obligation to reveal himself. Though Bradley's speeches trumpet bits of his glittering biography, he hates surrendering his story to others--especially to reporters who, he feels, take "snippets" and use them to draw wild conclusions. I ask if people have a right to learn about those who would be President. "That's more so today than...
...team to the top. An extraordinary shooter, he became famous for passing--another way to connect with his teammates. He practiced three or four hours a day, with weights in his sneakers to improve his jumping. It led to an acclaim that as McPhee once said, made Bradley "a personality before becoming a person." Known as the best high school ballplayer in Missouri history, he had college recruiters and newspapermen coming around all the time, but his parents weren't content to have their child be a jock. The pressure was always on him to study harder, aim higher, make...
...Morris off on his risky, semi-fictional path? The author was seriously late in delivering his book and anguished about writer's block and his inability to get to the core of Reagan. Perhaps it was the arrogance of the intellectual who cannot make himself believe that a person with an ordinary mind can be a powerful leader. Perhaps it was the need do something different with Reagan's life, to justify the big advance and the long delay in producing the book...