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...addition, Rudenstine has avoided replacing his predecessor's appointees whenever possible, once again demonstrating a preference for administrative experience over fresh but untested perspectives...
Under the tenure of Rudenstine's predecessor, former President Derek C. Bok, the Kennedy School expanded rapidly, and Carnesale says he does not see Rudenstine's aims as constituting a dramatic change for the school...
...President who would rather be elsewhere can delegate authority to subordinates. Clinton, however, has meticulously designed his Administration to answer to him, not to the Cabinet barons who plagued his Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter. He personally approved every State Department official ranked Assistant Secretary and above, some 30 people. "He's his own foreign policy guru," says a senior adviser. Having laid down power lines of authority that all lead to the White House, Clinton does not know how to set them humming...
Symonds estimates he spends "ten to twelve hours, six to seven days a week," working on undergraduate productions and a class, Dramatic Arts 31, he co-instructs with his predecessor Donald R. Soule...
...basic discussion of the sophisticated and technical issues involved in keeping a great economic machinery moving ahead . . ." No, Bob Dole argues today, it's "a fundamental difference in philosophy" that has caused Republicans to defy the President. Dole is wrong, Kennedy was right, and Clinton needs to appreciate his predecessor's insight...