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...walked with a friend across the Yale campus to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Bush volunteered that he was not a real intellectual. He prides himself on being a practical man, a problem solver, a bit of an overachiever. Some friends say his most notable trait is his persistence. He had been running for President for 20 years...
...Bush's sociable and humane instinct has a flip side: he often receives conflicting advice and he hates to disappoint friends. This can cause him to be indecisive and tentative in asserting his views, a trait that is exacerbated by his inherent cautious nature and his lack of ideological commitments...
Gleason says that American school children today perform much worse on standardized math tests than do students from other countries, partly because of the attitude here that the ability to do math is an inherited trait--not something that can be acquired...
John Sasso excels at a very simple thing: he listens. He fixes people with a steady gaze and, unlike most political operatives, does not cut them short. It is a disarming trait and not a parlor trick. Sasso actually takes what he hears and factors it into his plans. For he is, above all, a strategist, and any bit of stray information will be used to formulate his design...
...away from the English ambience. If you're at all aggressive -- gung ho -- it's really kind of frowned upon. Whereas, in America, they appreciate that. In fact, it's a prerequisite to getting around. For everybody on the street, every day is a competition." One national trait troubles him: "People in the U.S. tend to value a sport or a sportsman exactly according to how much money is involved. In adjacent arenas, if Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson were running for a $1,000 prize, and six monkeys were racing for $10 million, which place do you think would...