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...considering Summers to be the University’s 27th president, Harvard’s search committee paid close attention to the question of his style. The powerful group was ultimately reassured on that point by Summers’ predecessor, former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin ’60, who told them that his protege was a mellowed...
...department, widely considered the nation’s best, was a pet project of Summers’ predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine. Over the past couple of weeks, national media attention has focused on a dispute between Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, who is reported to be considering a return to Princeton University...
...loyalty with an unshakable faith in his ability to judge people instantly--to "look them in the eye," as he likes to say, and size them up. Despite being a Clinton appointee, Tenet had passed those tests months before. Bush made it clear early on that, unlike his predecessor, he expected to see his CIA director often. Tenet obliged, turning up at least twice a week for the President's morning intelligence briefing. He fed Bush the good stuff--raw human intelligence, along with plans for action--instead of meandering analysis. "He wasn't puffed up or pompous," says Vice...
...Many contrasted Bush with his predecessor: "President Bush has brought dignity and morality back to the position of President of the United States";"the world's only remaining superpower is not having to waste precious time contemplating what 'is' is."; "understands that the presidency and the country are not about him. No scandals, no impeachments, no stain." Nor was the praise confined to Republicans: "I'm not a Bush fan, I voted for Gore, but clearly President Bush is the Person of the Year." And if some already put him in the presidential pantheon ("His leadership has inspired this country...
...Berlin surely thought himself an outsider as well. There were Jews in the music business when he started, but not as many as there soon would be. During a 1913 Friars Club tribute, Berlin's predecessor and rival George M. Cohan described Berlin as "a Jew boy who named himself after an English actor [Henry Irving] and a German city." One can read as much affection as coarseness into the Irishman's epithet. Vaudeville and pop songs of the period were full of spiked ethnic jokes (Jewish, black, Irish, Italian); they were the hot bubbles from the American melting...