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When Summers was named to the presidency, it was in the hope that he would be a more active and visible president who would steer the university in a dramatically new direction. While he may be stubborn, and facing him down is no one’s favorite task, it is precisely his drive, determination, and persistent commitment to a greater vision that makes him a good leader. His tenure has led to widespread positive changes including the new financial aid initiative, a complete rethink of undergraduate education, and a plan for expansion into Allston...
...That “stubborn strategy” was a double-birdie for the Republicans: unified opposition that killed Democratic legislation, and Washington stalemate that killed the Democratic Congress. The lesson for today’s Democrats is clear: Unrelenting, unapologetic opposition is the only effective means of confronting, and ultimately defeating, the three-branch, fifty-state, multimedia right-wing behemoth that is America’s new governing party. And to the dangerously naïve among us—those who counsel “working with the president,” and hoist Tom Daschle?...
...keeps his word) will also never run for president again. But maybe what Democrats need right now is someone who can say what the Republicans said in 1993: This president isn’t nice, and he isn’t right. A Democratic “stubborn strategy” might be just what the doctor orders...
...course, not all imaginary friends are so versatile or well behaved. Children often complain about invisible friends who won't share or are too loud, too bossy, too stubborn or too busy to play. One child had a make-believe pal who was such a pill he named her Darn...
...frail humanity there is also the glory of our genius. Amid the shock and grief at our common helplessness before a cruel ocean, there is also this: when Huygens sent back those wondrous pictures from the surface of Titan this past Friday, we were reminded once again of our stubborn little common human greatness...