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...personality to take on the kind of job that she’s doing now,” he said. Business School professor of marketing Rohit Deshpande recalled how McGovern took the time in her first year to mentor junior faculty members. “It’s seldom you find people of such amazing accomplishments who are so humble,” he said. About the Red Cross, he added, “They have no idea yet how lucky they are.” —Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu...
...with their seamless integration into popular entertainment, their close affinities with the vapid celebrity culture of glossy magazines and MTV, and their nationwide audiences, professional baseball has generally remained a local affair. Teams count their most loyal devotees almost entirely within the regional base, and only seldom are regular-season games broadcast to a wider audience. Americans may, in theory, value mobility: but when it comes to baseball, carpetbagging fans, for good reason, are often shunned and scorned...
...Long Slog Ahead Seldom do I become irritated, but Simon Robinson's "Feeling the Spirit" left me seething [March 17]. Nobody should underestimate the enormous job the next U.S. President will have in restoring America's reputation, which has been damaged so badly by the current Administration. Here in Austria there is a huge feeling of anti-Americanism, not just because of the Iraq war but for many other issues as well. And judging from the comments of colleagues and friends throughout Europe and farther afield, it seems the whole world is laughing at the U.S., a country that...
...easy to view terrorists as alien creatures who exist outside normal patterns of social interaction," he writes. But the sobering reality is that they don't. Sociopaths do not make capable terrorists - they seldom take orders and are rarely willing to sacrifice their lives for a larger goal. Many terrorists on the other hand, share qualities with ordinary, law-abiding people: they can be cooperative, goal-orientated and intelligent, even if emotionally wrought. Often, the start of their radicalization can be traced to a scrupulously moral outrage - not an irrational hatred or base prejudice...
...easy to view terrorists as alien creatures who exist outside normal patterns of social interaction," he writes. But the sobering reality is that they don't. Sociopaths do not make capable terrorists--they seldom take orders and are rarely willing to sacrifice their lives for a larger goal. Many terrorists, on the other hand, share qualities with ordinary, law-abiding people: they can be cooperative, goal-oriented and intelligent, even if emotionally wrought. Often the start of their radicalization can be traced to a scrupulous moral outrage--not an irrational hatred or base prejudice...