Word: sandel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obstacle course because I have four Chores left. Now that I have developed my interests and could really benefit from close contact with professors, I will be stuck for one-third of my remaining time in impersonal lecture courses. Is there justice at Harvard. Where is Michael Sandel when you need...
...Alexander Hamilton's--he saw a big economy guided by self-interest and a muscular national government--or Thomas Jefferson's--he championed responsibility to society and mistrusted taking too much power away from individuals and their communities. Hamilton seemed to be carrying the argument, until Harvard professor Michael Sandel happened to notice whose portrait hung on the dimly lit wall of the Blue Room and whose marble memorial cast a moonlike glow across the Ellipse. Yes, Sandel said, Hamilton's influence endures in the profit-driven society that Hamilton helped shape. But it is Jefferson to whom the country...
What Jefferson understood, Sandel argued, was the feelings of apprehension and powerlessness that went along with building the greatest economy in the history of the world. It is a tension that Clinton is giving more thought to since last fall, when he suffered the biggest defeat of his second term: Congress's refusal to give him the "fast track" authority he sought to negotiate more NAFTA-like trade deals. Former White House aide Bill Galston, who attended the dinner, says Clinton is convinced the defeat was not a failure of tactics or the work of interest groups but rather...
...People brought to the table their own areas of expertise. We brought passion to the issues we were concerned with," Rayman said, noting Kennedy's expertise in race relations and Sandel's examination of justice in the modern...
...Some take the view that the Democratic party should stick to economic issues, but many of us argued that the Democrats need to connect economics issues with values and that it would be a mistake to leave all discussion of values and the culture to conservatives," Sandel said...