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Last winter I blogged about the lessons in failed leadership resulting from the historic and messy Blizzard of 2010 in New York City and the fury of my Brooklyn neighbors as days went by without subway service or adequate snow plows. Now in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, some New Yorkers are grousing that there [...]
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President Obama used his State of the Union address this week to announce that “this is our generation’s Sputnick moment” as he outlined the need to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build our competitors and yet carry out government reform. His words come just days after the 50th Anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, [...]
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As we celebrated Martin Luther King Day this year, I saw hopeful signs that we may all get along one day. My optimism actually started before the year-end holidays when the subject of civility in our nation’s courtrooms came up at a memorial for a distinguished trial lawyer who had been a treasured family friend, [...]
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The usually glorious holiday season in New York got an angry buzz when the Blizzard of 2010 buried the Boroughs on Christmas weekend, and stranded passengers on subways and trains, while accusations and denials flew back and forth on the airwaves. The season of Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men turned into an angry Wagnerian [...]
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CBS correspondent Steve Hartman recently did a feature on a small beach town where his family has vacationed each summer since he was a child called Lake Side, Ohio – a town where residents refuse to give into fear http://bit.ly/s6feP. Shop keepers rent bikes without locks and report that they’ve never been stolen. “We’ve never [...]
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