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...turns out, that "Lewis thing" may be the only business trait she and her husband shared. Reg was a brash Harvard-trained lawyer who became the richest African American in U.S. history through ruthless ambition and sheer willpower; Loida is scholarly and low key, the author of three textbooks, and deeply religious. She is perhaps the only CEO of a multinational company who greets visitors with a hug rather than a handshake. He smoked power-broker cigars, traveled in a custom jet and kept a Louis XIV-style office suite in Paris as a pit stop. She finds little...
What are they gawking at anyway? Are they surprised that we don't look somehow "different"? Are they trying to capture the essence of a Harvard student, an esoteric trait of creativity or dedication that marks those who attend this hallowed institution? There is the sense that we are something exotic, not to be bothered or confronted, but observed from a distance. Since there is no moat (anymore?) separating the tourists from Harvard students; as separates them from other rare beasts including okapis and Bengal tigers, they seem to create their own barriers. They watch from a distance as people...
...Wattleton's fervor might wear thin. This thoughtful and instructive book is marred only by its author's tendency to sermonize--a trait she would say she inherited from her mother. If she explains once why she believes abortion to be an inalienable right, she explains it a dozen times. And given the readers likely to be interested in this notable woman's story, Wattleton is undoubtedly preaching to the converted...
...reports, "is like a very good graduate seminar. When Bill finds something he likes to read, he's like Abe Lincoln, rereading the best parts until he's able to declaim them from memory. He has the same memory for anecdotes, including jokes at his own expense." A rare trait for politicians of any stripe...
...Kennedy would walk by, and three or four other guys too, and I'd think, hell, he didn't get it. So I'd wait a couple hours, next day, and I'd think he's forgotten, and he'd say, 'I heard all that.' That's an amazing trait." All that processing power left little air space for reflection or curiosity or wild-eyed reverie. He thrived in a place where big dreams tended to die in the details and grand vision was best left to the think tanks and the bully pulpiteers in the White House...