Word: trait
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...philosopher-name-dropping that Kirn suggests is the end point of a Princeton education. The "X factor" is not egotism but motivation. The established alumni networks may help down the line, but the attention that Princeton's professors give to their undergraduates is the school's most appealing trait. And I hope that Kirn reported the cheating he saw to the Honor Committee, part of Princeton's honor system since 1893. BRYAN COCKRELL PRINCETON '08 Damascus...
...Walking and driving around the streets, I noticed a peculiar trait of Beirut: it's not always possible to tell the difference between the old war damage and the new. Beirut is ramshackle and delightfully dilapidated in some parts - mostly the poor Shi'a parts, which are also the main target areas. Sometimes you realize that a balcony that appears freshly shorn off actually collapsed in the 1980s...
...greater supply than in Bombay. "Things just happen here," says Sanjay Bhandarkar, managing director of investment bank Rothschild's India. "Because people have to make things work themselves." The rise of China has been the product of methodical state planning, but India's is all about private hustle, a trait that Americans can appreciate. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, a billionaire trader in Bombay, says initiative represents Bombay's--and India's--advantage over its competitors. "It's people who make countries," he says, "not governments...
...authority figure but at the same time everyone feels like they can trust him and they can talk to him.”Austin adds that Brand’s ability to recruit associate coaches with “great technical experience” is a trait that “separates him from other coaches in the U.S.”“He’s definitely one of the best coaches I’ve known,” freshman sabre Craig Gorin says. “He somehow built this team up to be extremely...
...first, he must be last of all, and servant of all." We need to applaud the servant-leader, the one who clearly demonstrates that the interests of the organization and its customers, employees and investors (in that order) come first, not his own. Humility is a critically important trait in leaders. We have to ask ourselves, Is our society cultivating humility? Do we exhibit that trait individually and collectively as a nation? Will we stop and learn from the Enron lesson in leadership failures, or will we just shrug our shoulders and thank...