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...company of children. "But at the end of the day," says P. & C. boss Brownlee, "those children belong to a family." Just as nurses in pediatric wards must be constantly reassuring the relatives of the sick, she says, teachers are obliged to accommodate parents, even those lacking in tact and good manners...
...can’t tell for sure. But we do know that no public figure can operate effectively under such intense scrutiny. Summers has had his problems with public speaking. His tact must reflect his position as Harvard’s president. This current bout of criticism, though, borders on ridiculous. Our president shouldn’t have to publish transcripts of every speech he gives just to ensure he isn’t radically misquoted or misunderstood. And our president shouldn’t get dragged through the press for every vaguely contentious remark he makes. No public figure...
...Almighty Harvard had been caught with the pants down,” the applicant writes, adding that in dubbing the applicants “hackers,” “the school disregarded all sense of tact and manners in favor of some artificial notion of moral supremacy… The overall attitude of the institution left a very bad taste in my mouth...
...group of professors to take on additional advising duties, creating a more supportive system for the undergraduates he cared so much about. And he succeeded because he’s not afraid of making people angry. “He doesn’t have a lot of tact, so if he doesn’t think someone is smart, he’ll just say it,” Franklin says...
...article in Time Magazine about his ascent to the top of the Treasury reported that Summers, who had “made great strides in improving his people skills, has a reputation for brilliance, if not tact.” The story then quoted a famous column by Wall Street Journal commentator Paul Gigot, in which he wrote that “Larry Summers is to humility what Madonna is to chastity...