The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

The President, who really had been mostly managing his one-man Barack Obama narrative and journey his whole life, without executive experience, certainly - he's not a governor. Some governors, of course, they have experience in executing power, which is something fairly unique, actually, in government. And he has, neither, a set of nourishing experiences.

Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.