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...begun to improve undergraduate life. Summers has made Harvard College relevant again.But for all the goods things Summers brought with him from Washington D.C.—his sense of urgency and his knack for pursing the right ideas—Summers lacked the diplomatic grace of a versed politician, which proved to be fatal to his presidency. While a brusque and bold tact might succeed in an environment where politicians are scurrying for accomplishments before the next election, Summers faced faculty members with lifetime tenures who had little tolerance for his prodding ways. Perhaps one of the great ironies...
...first week she could call 450 people by their first name,” Goodnough said. Though Williamson officially served as an advisor for students in the program, her duties often extended far beyond—from helping them find childcare to giving them career tips. Elias Mudzuri, a politician from Zimbabwe who will be graduating this week from the mid-career program, described Williamson as a “mother of the Kennedy School.” “She has become an example of an American administrator who really accommodates all cultures,” Mudzuri said...
...much of his life with condiments. (Of the tepid reviews for his performance in 2005's King Kong, he says: "Maybe I didn't bring the spicy mustard. I only brought some mild cheddar sauce.") With the exception of a brief but startling performance as an acolyte of the politician in Bob Roberts, directed by Robbins, Black feels most of his early movie roles were expired mayo. "I did a lot of puppet acting, jobs where I did whatever the director said," Black says of unmemorable stints in such films as Waterworld and The Jackal. He hates confrontation...
...Curiously, no political group has sought to make capital out of the Haditha massacre. It says a great deal of the huge gap between Iraq's politicians (who tend to restrict themselves within the safe confines of Baghdad's highly protected Green Zone) and its people that not a single politician has bothered to visit Haditha, or even sent condolences to the bereaved families. Some Sunni leaders have mentioned the massacre in speeches, but only in the most desultory manner. ?There are so many atrocities against our people,? says Saleh Mutlak, a prominent Sunni politician and member of parliament. ?Everybody...
Then again, Gore's new movie has something of a mutant-action-hero plotline of its own. It's the tale of a scorned, washed-up politician transformed into a laptop-wielding ninja whose PowerPoint could rescue the planet from the forces of greed and indifference. The slide-show warning about the risks of global warming that Gore, 58, has been giving to audiences for years has been turned into a 92-min. documentary called An Inconvenient Truth. The film opened in New York City and Los Angeles to better-than-decent reviews, expands to all the 10 biggest markets...