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...Nixon, who clearly preferred foreign to domestic policy, emerges as a true wonk. He writes his own wide-ranging speeches, makes intelligent comments on staff memos, and scribbles perceptive notes to himself. In Washington, Nixon had jotted down the trip's priorities: "1. Taiwan-most crucial. 2. V.Nam-most urgent." One of the juiciest subplots in Seize the Hour involves the efforts of Nixon and Kissinger to keep Secretary of State William Rogers out of the loop. The State Department didn't know in advance of Kissinger's first secret trip to the mainland. And it was Kissinger, not Rogers...
Despite the policy arguments about media relations, this film is no wonk-fest; despite the condemnations of the monarchy, Frears creates recognizably human characters out of everyone but Prince Phillip. It is a continually involving look at the human costs associated with public service and experience, whether one chooses a post (Blair) or is born into it (Elizabeth...
Economics 1010a is really Ec 10 with more curves to learn, no reading, and a teacher who might actually know who you are. It was previously taught by Jeffrey Wolcowitz, a rotund policy wonk who makes an effort to help his students and learn their names, even in a 300-person lecture class. Jeffrey A. Miron takes his place this year...
When the members of the French socialist Party held their summer seminar in the pretty coast town of La Rochelle last month, they discussed the sort of topics that only a true policy wonk could love. Does there need to be "a new equilibrium between labor and capital"? Is Latin America "the new horizon of socialism"? [an error occurred while processing this directive] Behind the high-toned banter, however, lay a visceral political yearning. France's left has not held the nation's presidency since 1995, and it is hungry for power. It might be thought odd, then, that...
...marked contrast to his brother, Jeb is considered a workaholic policy wonk (although he's been known to relax his patrician demeanor with a glass of Wild Turkey and Motown CDs), and he practically oozes public service vigor, part of what Bush-watchers call the family's drive to cement its place as the GOP's answer to the Kennedy dynasty. "Whether they agree with his policies or not," says political consultant and former Jeb spokesman Cory Tilley, "taxpayers still admire him because they know they're getting their money's worth from...