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...Throttlebottom the basics of White House governance: "Of course the first four years are easy. You don't do anything except try to get re-elected. ? The next four years you wonder why the hell you wanted to be re-elected." For our last two Presidents, that bit of wisdom might hit home...
...many, the notion of service permeates our undergraduate years, as we flock to Phillips Brooks House Association Programs, issue advocacy groups, partisan campaign trips, and Institute of Politics study groups, turning to each in the belief that we should enter Harvard not only to grow in our own wisdom, but to use the knowledge and skills we gain here to work for our vision of a better world...
...Look at Apple's iPod, a device that didn't and doesn't do much more than the competition. It won because it's easier, and sexier, to use. In many ways, Nintendo is the Apple of the gaming world, and it's betting its future on the same wisdom. The race is not to him who hulas fastest, it's to him who looks hottest doing...
...many are missing large structural changes that are realigning world markets. El-Erian offered a number of hypothesis centered around the idea that a new set of countries are emerging with systemic importance that have far-reaching implications. “How do you know...when conventional wisdom fails, when your models can no longer explain what’s going on, when words like conundrums, puzzles, aberrations appear in the Financial Times,” he said. He cited as examples the ‘interest-rate conundrum’—the fact that long-term interest...
...dispense advice. The pastime becomes particularly fashionable pre-frosh weekend, but seems to gather momentum every day after. The basic principle as far as I can tell: having endured the most years of college, seniors are in a unique position to be wise, and they should distribute their wisdom accordingly. If they do this, then the next generation of students will not repeat their mistakes, and the world will be a better place.Sometimes this principle works. For instance, exactly three years ago, Jacob A. Rubin ’03 published his wisdom under the headline...