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After Paul Wellstone's death, Coleman, 53, hit the perfect tone in ads--respectful but looking toward the future. With Mondale, 74, and gubernatorial candidate Roger Moe, 61, on their ticket, the Democrats looked like the past...
...stands for anything, it's power. Former denizens contend that the placement of offices around the President's Oval forms a power chart similar to the old Kremlin reviewing stand, where Stalin's rankings of his Politburo members were measured by how close to him they stood during parades. Roger Porter, who served as an aide to three Presidents in the West Wing, notes that Homeland Security head Tom Ridge is only a few steps down the hall from President Bush's office--"a good measure of the President's priorities...
...franchise alive--was once the Bond that got away. In 1986 he had to turn down an offer to play the role because he couldn't get out of his Remington Steele TV contract. But he was ready to take the part when asked again in 1994. After Roger Moore's ironic, almost geriatric Bond, and then Timothy Dalton's leaden, I'm-really-a-serious-actor Bond, the debonair Irishman has reinvigorated the old spy and started to make the character his own. Although he delivers Bond-mots with requisite panache, Brosnan plays the part straighter and steelier than...
According to IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, who teaches a course on the American presidency (taken by Al Gore ’69 when he was an undergrad), Harvard does lend some power in the path to the highest office in the nation. “Reaching the presidency involves long odds, but having a Harvard degree doesn’t hurt,” he writes in an e-mail...
Attracting low-income students to top schools like Harvard is especially difficult because, as Director of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program Roger Banks points out, “mythologies surrounding places like Harvard are very muscular.” But the fact that mythologies may be more imposing at Harvard than elsewhere does not explain why the JBHE reports that Harvard’s Pell Grant numbers have increased far less than other highly selective schools like Cornell, Yale and Duke...