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...students visit at least 18 of the booths to enter a raffle, many students were forced to learn more about topics ranging from the lack of women in the United States Senate to human rights violations in Turkey. We are glad that the tone of the booths did not sway far from government issues and that they attempted to show the importance of a having a voice in government...
...Presidents to figure out a few keys to success. The first is not leaking disagreements with the boss. Gore has also shouldered thankless but meaty tasks that give him something to attend to besides foreign funerals: reinventing government, overhauling telecommunications law, smoothing relations with Moscow. But part of his sway in the White House flows from being not just an inside guy. His book Earth in the Balance, linking family and ecological dysfunction, sold more than 500,000 copies. He has independent stature because of his decades of patient work on arms control, TV violence, putting computers in classrooms...
...power is clout, like the thud of an iron heel. Influence is sway, like being rocked in a hammock. But like the grass in Carl Sandburg's poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles...
...addition, there is an obvious generation gap between CAA's Old Guard and the Young Turks who hold sway over many of the agency's most valuable clients. The awkward management structure Ovitz put in place before his departure had representatives of the younger generation in charge of operations, with oversight provided by three older co-chairmen...
Experts make an important distinction between talented kids and true prodigies: a prodigy instinctively knows his rare gifts and is almost impossible to control or sway. "The power and force of what that child wants to do is coming from within," says David Henry Feldman, a developmental psychologist who is head of the Eliot-Pearson Child Development Department at Tufts University. "You'd almost have to kill that child to keep him or her from doing what he or she wants." Rita May, who brought up her family in Chapel Hill, found herself in that position when her son David...