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...radical. He was the ideal host: a mediator, a moderator. When he wasn't talking, he actually listened to his guests. When he wasn't being funny, he could be resolutely serious; "The Tonight Show" occasionally devoted entire evenings to one guest (Carl Sandburg) or discussion of one topic (civil rights). Unlike most modern hosts, Allen wasn't shy about trying to edify people. He didn't pretend to be stupider than he was. Or younger. On his prime-time show, he presented kids' stuff with a cushion of irony. He'd dead-pan the lyrics to "All Shook...
...Aguilera is having vocal chord problems and had to cancel a slew of concerts again for the second time in a month. This sounds strangely similar to the string of "maladies" which sidelined Whitney Houston while she was off smoking the ganja... Karmic revenge seems to be a hot topic this week. I overheard one boy in Lowell dining hall telling his friend: "Look at that girl now. She's fat. She's put on a good 15 to 20. And you know what? She deserves it for being such a bitch."...'80s Dance tonight! Get there early, otherwise...
...Having multiple advisors creates a system of checks and balances such that if subjects are not comfortable broaching a topic with their primary advisor, they have somewhere else they can turn," Haushalter says...
...right and how to lead. This is not because Coles's argument is complex, but rather because the book is not very focused. It is a survey of moral leadership through various episodes and stories. The stories themselves are, for the most part, valuable on their own, and the topic of moral leadership is obviously one that receives a great deal of discussion and debate, especially, as Coles points out, in the context of this year's presidential election. And yet at first glance, Lives of Moral Leadership is not very weighty or academically substantive. Each of the different chapters...
This is not a book that Harvard undergraduates are going to buy in large or even modest quantities. We are more inclined to discuss moral leadership as an abstraction in section than as a topic of deep personal interest. The easiset way to read Coles's book is as a primer on the qualities of moral leadership, as a guide to what we have seen and looked for in moral leaders. This might also be the least appealing way to read it, as far as college students are concerned; we think we are too worldly and intelligent for such romantic...