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...virtually certain to face John McCain in the fall come so far so fast? Much of the answer can be traced to the lessons of his first thumping. It was after that brief race in 2000, say dozens of aides and associates who spoke with TIME, that Obama learned how to be a politician. He jettisoned his Harvard-tested speaking style for something more down-home. He learned how to cultivate those in power without being defined by them. And he learned how to be different things to different people: a reformer groomed by an old-fashioned machine boss...
...teachers who transformed students, who found an interest the student hadn’t had before,” Staff said. “We read about this again and again.” In the interlude between dinner and dessert, Richard Levenson ’74 spoke about his late father, a 1941 Harvard graduate and a professor of Chinese history at Berkeley for whom the award is named. Other members of the Levenson family also attended the banquet. Though he never met Levenson, Puett said he worked with many people who knew his fellow Chinese history scholar well...
Ford Motor Company’s top environmental official spoke yesterday on “Sustainability, Environment, and Safety Engineering” as the final guest in this year’s Future of Energy Series.While hosting an automobile industry official like Susan M. Cischke in a series dedicated to “finding a secure, safe, and reliable source of energy to power the world,” may come as a surprise, the choice was an intentional effort by the Harvard University Center of the Environment (HUCE) to address all facets of this challenge.“We?...
...confess” the media’s propensity to focus only on the hot story of the day—the “ring of fire”—as well as his views on the current administration and the upcoming presidential race. Matthews spoke about the American people’s desire for change and the impact that it has had on election politics. “Americans generally don’t say this is as good as it gets,” Matthews said. “We’re not European...
...analysts that Beijing was softening its previously hardline stance regarding the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. It was also noted that President Hu Jintao had said he expected "positive results" from the talks, another first. Other analyses dwelled on the language used in the official media reports, some of which spoke of the "Dalai Lama group" rather than using phrases such as the "Dalai clique" or "splittist clique" that are usually employed...