Word: ruthless
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LEVY: Let me be blunt: I think you need ruthless leadership that is prepared to tackle really ancient problems of management in order to get the best teachers teaching those who are less able to get performance out of students. I have intentionally used the language of management for the reason that I think it evokes a whole different response. If you've got branches or distant offices that don't work well, you put your strongest managers there. In this industry--if I can call it that--we do the opposite. We take our youngest teachers, our weakest managers...
...anti-Kremlin media mogul - and erstwhile Primakov backer - Vladimir Gusinsky has been widely interpreted as a signal that domestic dissent will not be tolerated by the Kremlin's new leadership. But while Western leaders may have expected a more authoritarian regime from Putin in the wake of his ruthless handling of Chechnya and his staring down of Western criticism of same, his vigorous foreign-policy offensive against Washington has caught them off guard. Not only has Putin refused to accede to U.S. demands to renegotiate the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, he's actually gone on the offensive seeking European support...
...apparent transformation of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from ruthless master of metropolitan machtpolitik into compassionate hybrid of Hamlet, the Duke of Windsor and Graham Greene raises a fascinating question. Can a person really, and I mean fundamentally, change...
Sierra Leone, admitted a top U.N. official last week, "is a perfect model for everything that can go wrong in a peacekeeping operation." It began when the merciless rebel leader Foday Sankoh adopted a singularly ruthless strategy: if you terrorize enough civilians--raping girls, mutilating children, burning houses--the world will eventually give you just about anything to stop the atrocities. By July 1999 the beastly killing spree had spurred Washington and London into brokering a flawed peace-at-any-price, handing Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front amnesty, four seats in the government and control over the country...
Which is why we will be celebrating Jefferson at the next Library of Congress centenary too. He so embodies America in all its sprawling contradictory greatness: the Wilsonian idealist prepared to engage in ruthless Rooseveltian realism; the worshipper of system, order and science who is given to romance--with France, with revolution, with the American West; the practical inventor and tinkerer, yet endowed with the capacity to compose the most lyrical, most transcendent assertion of human liberty ever penned...