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...says she bases her opinions on both real-life observations and leadership courses she has taken at Harvard. She also mentions the concept of “soft power,” coined by Joseph Nye, former dean of the Kennedy School of Government, as a more effective, feminine way of conducting Harvard politics...
...traveling, or simply taking some time to recover from the stresses of student life. But you chose Harvard; today, you study in the cold, morbid Cambridge winter.Under the awkward and ill-conceived Harvard College calendar, undergraduates are asked to return to Harvard by Jan. 2 for reading period, a soft-landing for exam period consisting of mandatory review sessions, feverish work on a final paper, and various required course meetings. It doesn’t take much to see how unhappy students are under the current schedule. Only days after toasting to a new year full of fresh starts...
...mass, a tea, and prayer service. The most raucous thing on the schedule is a concert by Tony Bennett. Add a tote bag and it'd be a PBS telethon. Indeed, the demographic-pleasing tenor of the events reeks of a self-conscious desire to highlight all soft-focus interest groups that come with the Pelosi package: Italian, female, Catholic, grandmother. With so many facets illuminated, perhaps Pelosi's people are hoping no one notices what's been left out: the only nod to Pelosi's actual home district and voting record may well be Bennett's theme song...
...deprivation. Elvis' "White Christmas" borrows heavily from the 1954 doo-wop version by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters; but most of the other renditions are not so extreme. He does an excellent, committed "Silent Night," with careful intonations that his Tupelo elocution teacher would've been proud of (a soft hammering of those final t's). And "Here Comes Santa Claus" shows how much the crooner in Elvis owed to Crosby...
...Sadr City had been Chiarelli's showcase of soft power. As commander of the 1st Cavalry, he had ordered "public works" like new sewage systems and improved water supplies to deal with ingrained grievances. That did nothing to stem the Mahdi Army's power. Now, though it can be seen as a place where increased U.S. troop presence can make a difference, the tense standoff between U.S forces and the Mahdi Army could easily erupt into open fighting and turn Baghdad into an urban battleground. Still, as a long as the uneasy prevailing peace remains, American troops exercise a broad...