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Bush “looked great in his flight jacket,” says one female classmate, and though across the River it would be a somewhat perplexing choice to wear an Air National Guard jacket in the midst of Vietnam War controversy, the outfit went unquestioned at the B-school...
...wide acceptance of Bush’s military jacket and conservative views, as well as the school’s somewhat slow reaction to the cultural changes, are linked to the subject being taught—and the intensity of the academic environment. In the midst of learning about streamlined options for the route to the most profit, “compassion doesn’t come up… too much,” Michael T. Eckhart says...
...family that had already become somewhat well-known: Bush’s grandfather had been a famous senator and in 1973, his father, the future President George H. W. Bush, was the chairman of the Republican National Committee and a candidate to replace Spiro Agnew as Nixon’s vice-president. By the end of Bush’s tenure at the B-School, the elder Bush had become America’s emissary to China at a key point in Sino-American relations...
Since the start of this election season, we have exhaustively lamented the lack of substantive discourse between the two major presidential campaigns. Both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have delivered unrealistic platforms and pandering performances—undesirable, of course, but somewhat endemic to electioneering. In the arena of political advertising, however, this election surpasses any typical maneuvering in presidential campaigns. Never before has so much been spent on campaign ads; yet, in recent memory, never before have those ads operated on such a base level. As Nov. 2 approaches, ads have become ever more exploitative of human fears?...
...clearly operating with the attitude that to label John Kerry as a liberal is to smear him in the eyes of the American public. Poll data suggests that that belief is anything but unsubstantiated. In a January 2004 Newsweek Poll, 83 percent of respondents felt that it was somewhat or very important that a democratic challenger to President Bush “should be generally seen as a political moderate, not a strong liberal”, and a 2003 poll by CBS found that more Democrats wanted to see their party nominate a conservative candidate than wanted a liberal nominee...