A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

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.

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