March 2005
Wednesday 23 March
- Stand Up and Cheer (17:19) - Last Friday, I found the nation’s future leaders and I was awestruck. I had the good fortune to spend the entire day on a selection panel for Truman Scholars, which provides financial support for graduate studies to promising young individuals who wish to pursue public service. In the morning, before the interviews began, I told the candidates that I had found my eyes tearing up as I read their applications; in fact, one time this...
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Monday 14 March
- Cultural Differences (09:44) - What is the difference between a culture of opposition and a culture of governance? This is the question my friend Randa Slim, vice president of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, asked during a luncheon at The Harwood Institute a week or so ago. All of her work is done overseas, in such places Tajikistan, Russia, and the Middle East. But her question is relevant here at home. In the countries where Randa works, people...
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Monday 7 March
- Rather Authentic (17:23) - The curtain is coming down this week on Dan Rather as anchor of the CBS Evening News, and he’d like you to remember him as being authentic. Good luck to him – and many others. In a recent Ken Auletta article in The New Yorker, Rather said, “The one thing I hope and I believe, is that even my enemies think I’m authentic.” In America today, too much time is expended on wishing for authenticity;...
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