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...Community is] part of the appeal of an event like this—it’s the only time of the year when you can meet other puzzle people and just see how good you are as a solver,” he said...
Five years ago, Ahmadinejad was elected as a problem solver, an engineer who would clear away old obstacles to a functioning and just economy. An initial flood of oil-fueled liquidity and openhanded lending at the beginning of the Ahmadinejad era has given way to a stagnant property market and tight limits on bank lending in an effort to rein in prices. Ahmadinejad also dissolved economic-planning organizations and dismissed officials with economic expertise. Managers in Iran's near paralyzed manufacturing sector now face the immediate problem of how to fill the gaps in their end-of-year accounts under...
...same time. Challenges would be created to address short-term problems or disasters that strike without warning, or long-standing issues that afflict scores of people around the world. In that sense, HarvardforHumanity serves as both a community service idea engine and a global problem solver. Thus, the point is not that the best ideas come from Harvard internally. It is that although good ideas may come from outside Harvard’s campus, it is Harvard that sees their potential and gives them a chance to grow...
...latter quality that has made Gates so valuable. He is a problem solver, a fixer and a loyal soldier. In Washington those qualities go a long way. For a long time now, the wise men in Washington have been the problem solvers, and the fixers have been regarded as sages. But the fixer is not the moral leader, the one who provides American policy with its purposes. It's worth remembering that what finally matters are the values and the principles he is fixing...
More important, a few Republican candidates have demonstrated that it is possible to transcend the party's conservative-moderate divide. In Virginia, Robert McDonnell won a landslide - the first Republican win in a governor's race there in 12 years - by running as a problem solver. Social conservatives know he is one of them. But independent voters strongly backed him too. Voters as a whole trusted him more than his Democratic opponent on everything from fixing the roads to strengthening the economy. Once he had that trust, Democrats were unable to get voters to see him as frighteningly conservative, although...