Word: machiavelli
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Mansfield has resided in this office for 30 years, since he was named chair of the government department in 1973. The walls are decorated with pictures of Machiavelli and John Locke, as well as two framed certificates, signed by George Bush and Ronald Reagan...
...have given the Security Council the chance to render itself so useless. When political advisers tell future presidents about the lessons of the run-up to the second war with Iraq, it will be that Bush was too much of a loud dove, and not enough of a secretive Machiavelli...
...soldier's attitude toward politics springs from his training at the academy. All cadets attend lectures on governance. Arts majors take a political-science course studying Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Indian strategist Chanakya, Arab historian Ibn Khaldun and Pakistani poet Muhammad Iqbal. But the average soldier learns more in the mess hall and the boxing ring than from this tutoring in political theory. "Phhh," sneers Major General Hamid Rab Nawaz, the academy's commandant. "I never studied political science myself...
Saddam has limited knowledge of the West and surrounds himself with yes-men who tell him only what he wants to hear. But he shows an eager appetite for certain kinds of information. He constantly monitors CNN and BBC news programs, likes American thriller movies and admires Stalin and Machiavelli. He writes romance novels, supposedly without assistance: just last week a play based on a novel widely believed to have been written by Saddam, Zabibah and the King, opened at Baghdad's elegant new theater. It tells of a lonely monarch in love with a virtuous commoner who is raped...
...real education at Harvard took place at The Crimson. Nowhere else at school have I learned to argue, write, develop friendships, contend with egos and work along with others toward a specific goal. I am convinced these skills will come in more handy than the ability to critique Machiavelli or analyze Dreiser, as I am convinced that this is a large part of what I will remember from my time here. For others, their real education and growth will have taken place wherever they spent their time—dribbling down a soccer field, pipetting in a biology...