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...campaign.“The ideal government would be a person who knew everything about everyone perfectly. That doesn’t exist,” he says. A government “should allow people to do what they like to do, rather than have someone top-down say ‘you should do that.’ ”“This campaign is kind of a culmination of three years here. It’s social critique as well as being a campaign,” Hwang says.THE TWO HARVARDSHwang has developed a social...
...citizens pulling along in solving the enormous problems we have," says one of her key spokesmen, National Assembly deputy Arnaud Montebourg. "We need a democratic revolution." Easy enough to say. But the French love irony enough, perhaps, to make a Royal the one to end the regal top-down traditions of the French presidency that Charles de Gaulle embodied and his successors emulated...
This time around, the protesters say--and this is a crucial complaint in a world in which people grow up excluded from many conversations--that she is a poor communicator. By that they mean several things. Some say she makes top-down decisions. Others say she lacks vision for a job that isn't just a university presidency but almost a secretary-generalship of the deaf world. "It's like in Islam, people go to their Mecca for a holy religious cleansing," Lawrence Fleischer, dean of deaf studies at California State University, Northridge, says through an interpreter. "In our world...
Fowler-Finn has been frequently criticized for his top-down management style; committee member Luc Schuster said that some have likened him to former University President Lawrence H. Summers. In his annual evaluation in June, the School Committee gave him low marks on reaching out to the community...
...Administration's attention appears sporadic, limited to calling for elections but then failing to follow through on the tougher, more costly and less glamorous work of building institutions that can sustain democracies. Michael O'Hanlon, a senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, says, "The Administration's top-down approach of assuming that elections will solve problems has been too simplistic. You also need educational institutions and economic development...