Word: recentering
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...concerted effort to appeal to the anti-intellectual preferences of certain voters. John McCain, a Republican presidential candidate, frequently jokes about his fifth-from-the-bottom finish at the U.S. Naval Academy. Gore and Bradley have similarly made the effort to downplay their respective Harvard and Princeton educations in recent months...
However, during a recent radio interview with Boston political correspondent Andy Hiller, Bush was asked to name the leaders of four major countries--India, Pakistan, Taiwan and Chechnya--and could only come up with the last name of the Taiwanese president. Ignoring the fact that Bush didn't know Lee Teng-hui's full name, we can see that he scored a disappointing 25 percent on that little pop quiz. His academic record in this particular case would actually overestimate the extent of his knowledge, a revelation that can be buttressed by his recent confusion of Slovenia and Slovakia...
...recent attention to Bush's knowledge gaps may end up being mere blips on the radar screen of his campaign, given his popularity level and fundraising skills. But if Bush, or any other candidate, can't prepare himself well enough to be effective in a public forum about today's most salient issues, it's hard to believe he could be effective as a president. The presence or absence of smarts may not be seen as important, but the ability to communicate knowledgeably and on a well-informed basis is absolutely essential...
QUESTION 2: A company is only as good as the people who run it. Among which pool will you find the most competent people to staff your new company? A) Recent graduates from the Harvard Business School; B) Former associates at Boston Consulting Group; C) EC-10 Teaching Fellows; D) Your blockmates...
...could no longer withstand two regional wars at once. It's been at least seven years since the Army has ranked one of its 10 divisions as C-4, or unfit to serve in war, but this year two divisions received that ranking, while, for the first time in recent memory, no division received the highest ranking. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) blamed the Army's failing grades on "insufficient funding and foreign policy that has committed military personnel to areas where we have no vital security interests." Depending on how you look at it, the report represents either...