Word: technocrat
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...thoroughly collegiate on March 1. I woke at the ripe hour of 10:30 a.m. and immediately went to check my e-mail. At home I was a fervent anti-technocrat, but I have had to adapt-here at college, checking your e-mail is more important than that first cup of coffee. After trekking to Rubin's Deli in Brookline for lunch with a friend, I returned to Harvardland to finish up my work before the much-anticipated Freshman Formal that night. I checked my mail in the monstrosity we call a Science Center, and then...
Loker Commons was not designed for actual Harvard students but for imaginary twentysomethings, conjured in the minds of fiftysomething university administrators. "We ought to add something bright and digital," one can almost hear the anonymous Harvard technocrat announcing, with considerable pride, to a hip Cambridge architect. "Kids these days are so technologically oriented...
That indecision is symptomatic of a deeper problem: Zedillo's inability so far to craft a consistent policy on anything. A technocrat and former Education Minister thrust into the top spot almost by accident, Zedillo seems torn between the hard-liners (``dinosaurs'') and reformers in the P.R.I., veering first one way, then another. He may learn, and he will have to do a delicate balancing act in any case. But for the moment, all his moves keep bringing up that deadly question: Que onda...
Serra, a highly confident technocrat who oversaw the NAFTA negotiations for Mexico, had misjudged the importance of hand holding in the world of high finance, especially when the hands control your country's fate. Money managers in the U.S. were stunned. During the Salinas era they had grown accustomed to being alerted in advance to any major change in Mexico's financial policies. In a reaction that reflected professional pique as much as considered judgment, they dumped Mexican securities as fast as they could...
...worst shock was the March assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and Salinas' hand-picked successor. As a replacement, Salinas pressed the party's Old Guard to choose his Education Minister and Colosio's campaign manager, Zedillo, a Yale-educated technocrat. As a campaigner, Zedillo was so colorless that at one rally his wife had to nudge him to throw his arms into the air and shout "Viva Mexico!" at the appropriate moment. But he was committed to the Salinas reforms. Then in September came another blow: the killing of Zedillo's main...