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...houses of worship aren't only preaching these new values; they also seem more effective in carrying them out. Churches get things done because they generate, in the think tank-speak of the day, social capital. They possess the moral authority to call people to service on behalf of others, something politicians generally lack the stature even to try. Americans, Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center writes in the Ladd Report, are more than twice as likely to volunteer as people in Germany or France. And the percentage of Americans volunteering, unlike participating in government, is going not down...
Because both St. Lawrence and Clarkson possess high-powered offenses, Harvard will need to recover its offensive might...
...students spend 51 weeks of the year blissfully unconcerned with the council and its politics. But then we elect a president who is fundamentally an administrator without any real knowledge of how he or she has performed to date and no grasp of which candidates possess the set of skills necessary to work with the administration on behalf of students. Despite their flaws, perhaps it makes much more sense to have the council operate like other student organizations, where the members choose their own leaders based on the knowledge they gain by working alongside them all semester...
...leader to devoted (or potentially devoted) listeners, than in writing. Charisma itself is natural--some have a little, others a lot, no one can gain charisma through education alone--but insofar as charismatic authority depends on oratory, people can be educated to take advantage of whatever natural charisma they possess...
...very difficult to possess any religious conviction here and not be misunderstood," King says...