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...needs to be a strong man, a father, a husband, a cool dude, all at the same time. In other words, a populist who can tug Taiwan's voters to the polls this December and lead his Democratic People's Party (DPP) to a legislative plurality. Great leaders like Roosevelt, Mao and Chiang Kai-shek had that ability to reach through whatever medium they were using and connect with their people. For Chen, successful at everything he has done, finding a way to make that connection is proving his greatest challenge. You can't bone up on empathy or cram...
...past week, serious tension has developed in the already strained relationship between America and the United Nations. On May 4, America was voted off the UN Commission on Human Rights, leaving it without a seat for the first time since the commission’s founding by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1947. The move, coordinated by a French-led bloc, has left the commission with such human-rights luminaries as Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Sudan, the last of which is known for widespread slavery. And yesterday, the House voted to suspend American payments of belated UN dues. The Bush administration should...
...Nixon had been raised by a mother more along the lines of, say, Winston Churchill's - Jennie Randolph, no saint but a fairly negligent absentee? Would that have made Nixon Churchillian? Suppose, at the other extreme, that Nixon had been dealt the hand (a straight flush) of little Franklin Roosevelt. Suppose Nixon had grown up - not in his bleakly struggling Whittier, California, with the gas station and the saint and the angry, punitive Dad - but as a darling of the Hudson River gentry, doted upon as an only child by an aging gentleman father and by a mother who loved...
...Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, is famous for saying “speak softly, but carry a big stick.” With its position at the forefront of national education, the mantra might as well be about Harvard. Historically, some of the nation’s most important education reforms have emerged from Harvard’s own bully pulpit...
...James B. Conant ’14, the 23rd president of Harvard was both a leader in national education reform and an international figure, serving as the High Commissioner to Germany under U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, during the final year of his Harvard tenure. Rudenstine’s predecessor, Derek C. Bok, was also a prominent national figure, frequently writing op-ed pieces in national newspapers and testifying before Congress...