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...cries for revenge echo in some quarters across the country, Executive Dean of Radcliffe Louise Richardson, a government professor who has taught a course on terrorism in years past, cautioned the U.S. government not to rush to judgment. Acknowledging that federal officials will be under a great amount of pressure to respond swiftly, she said she hopes that the government will resist the pressure for immediate action and focus on formulating a plan only after the complete nature of Tuesday’s attacks have been divulged...
That sweet spot is now occupied by Condi Rice. She taught Bush his ABCs in foreign affairs in their pre-presidency tutorials. Now she's just down the hall, whence it's easy to run into the Oval Office 10 times a day. Bush wants his info whittled down to one-page memos, and she writes them; he likes one-person oral briefings, and she provides them. He doesn't want to hear a cacophony of competing voices; she ensures that disputes are resolved before they reach him. And Rice hangs out with the First Family--spending a week...
Many of the first-year students' first exploration of different worldviews will come in the required freshman seminar called The Responsible Self. "It sounds like a course in shampooing your hair," groans junior Andy Johnson, who nevertheless feels the course "taught me a lot about myself...
...Bush Jr. put together something very different. He never imagined a team so moderate. He made his dad's conservative Defense Secretary his Vice President and put Don Rumsfeld, the hard-liner who taught Cheney how to do it, in the Pentagon. Into the White House he brought the impressive but fairly narrow Sovietologist Condoleezza Rice. She looked like a moderate but has steadily morphed to the right. Powell, by contrast, edged toward the center after leaving the Army, if not on goals at least on the diplomatic means...
...That sweet spot is now occupied by Condi Rice. She taught Bush his ABCs in foreign affairs in their pre-presidency tutorials. Now she's just down the hall, whence it's easy to run into the Oval Office 10 times a day. Bush wants his info whittled down to one-page memos, and she writes them; he likes one-person oral briefings, and she provides them. He doesn't want to hear a cacophony of competing voices; she ensures that disputes are resolved before they reach him. And Rice hangs out with the First Family?spending a week...