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...famous Cindy Sheehan—who holds George W. Bush personally responsible for the death of her soldier son—learned this the hard way when she came to town earlier this summer to stir up her usual ruckus outside the former president??s new Dallas home. As Bush’s house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac, Sheehan couldn’t get closer than the top of the street, and the neighborhood’s expansive green lawns and wide driveways absorbed her group’s attempts at charismatic exhortation...
...Preston Hollow—the former president??s new haunt, and the neighborhood I grew up in—is the sort of Norman Rockwell-ish enclave that tries to embody the most idealized notion of American family values: The houses are large and traditional, the lawns green and resplendent, and the children blonde and bike-prone. It likes to propagate its image as the most down-to-earth of Dallas’s affluent neighborhoods (especially in comparison to the adjacent “Park Cities,” where social intrigue is king). But don?...
...Sheehan’s protest was an attack on that avatar. And to some residents of Preston Hollow, it was also an attack on the mythology they allowed themselves to believe for so long, which held not only that Bush was a good president??despite the media’s inaccurate and disrespectful portrayal of his administration—but also that they, the residents of Preston Hollow, were, like Bush, the kind of people who deserved to occupy positions of authority...
...After finishing his education, he briefly worked in accounting before returning to HBS as an assistant professor. But he took leave to help direct the Allied air war in WWII, and then left academia afterwards to work at Ford Motor Company—where he later became President??because his Harvard salary was not enough to pay the medical bills when both he and his wife came down with cases of polio...
...borrow money on buildings, on top of [a troubled budget] without having a plan for raising the funds—credible, realistic plans for building—was a mistake in my view.” Others defend the former President??s plans, arguing that the University’s heavily debt-financed and accelerated Allston expansion was essential for Harvard’s continued scientific competitiveness, and that the planning was not unusually or excessively risky. Rather, they say, a confluence of unfortunate events decimated University budgets and forced Faust’s hand...