“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Yet earlier this month, he was confronted with – and defended – research he did with fetal tissue several decades ago.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Carson wins strong support from Christian conservative voters – a major force in the Iowa caucuses – for his opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion. 16, when candidates can expect sharper questions on their policy views. We’re still in the runup to the 2016 primaries. Two weeks ago, some 12,000 people reportedly turned out in Phoenix, Ariz., to hear him speak – more than came to hear Trump at the same venue. More than two years later, Carson has proved himself to be no mere political flash in the pan. Commentator Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic called Carson “the Conservative Black Hope of the moment.” In early 2013, when Carson burst onto the political scene and lectured Obama in person at the National Prayer Breakfast, he was suddenly all over Fox News. He is, to some, the Republicans’ Barack Obama – and perhaps even more authentically black than President Obama, who grew up in Hawaii and was raised largely by his white mother and her parents.Ĭarson grew up in Detroit and was raised by a single mother. That’s a 71 percent increase, better than any other candidate.Īnother dimension that cannot go unstated is that Carson is African-American, important to Republicans tired of being reminded that they are woefully deficient in their support among minorities. Fox News showed Carson at 12 percent, up from 7 percent in its pre-debate poll. It was probably pre-planned and rehearsed, but Carson delivered it with such ease – and a smile – that Republicans ate it up.Ī week later, when the first major post-debate national poll was released, some analysts declared Carson the winner. Any time voters hear something that sounds like political double talk, they tune out.” And third, he doesn’t talk like a politician. Each is being himself, and in a field packed with career politicians, that’s a plus.Ĭarson is gaining support because “he’s viewed as principled,” says Republican strategist Ford O’Connell. For Trump and Carson, another common denominator is authenticity. The outsider appeal of the three nonpoliticians in the GOP race – Trump, Carson, and Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard – is well-documented. 2, are the first contest in the 2016 nominating race, and are a crucial test. Iowa’s Republican caucuses, scheduled for Feb. Trump and Carson each got 23 percent of the vote among likely Iowa GOP caucus-goers, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday. Trump comes across as the aggressively self-confident businessman he is Carson has the bedside manner of the physician he is.Īnd they’re both hot properties in the GOP presidential nomination race, ranked one and two nationally, and tied for the lead in the latest poll out of Iowa. Carson has calm, steady, surgeon’s hands – “Gifted Hands,” as his memoir is titled. When Trump speaks, he chops his hands in the air as if to enhance his brashness. What will he change? Even at this stage of his career, he can still change hearts, offering emphatic testimony that soccer is indeed the beautiful game.īen Carson, in many ways, is the antithesis of Donald Trump. Messi can be enjoyed by a nation that now has some appropriate appreciation of his genius. Here is a man who has a rightful place in the conversation about the best players ever to kick a soccer ball. When Pelé came to the United States in 1975, he was 50 years too early.
He shows that MLS has arrived, or that it is still just a rest home for stars past their prime. To this, I might say: Who cares? None of us really have any clue what effect Mr. Messi is simply cashing in one last time before retirement. Messi’s arrival will be a watershed moment for American soccer, or Mr.
When the world is gripped in the first giddy moments of excitement, we often either bathe in the rosy glow of optimism or assume the practiced role of the skeptic. Messi’s career. At such a momentous moment, it is natural to ask momentous questions.
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At the end of one of the most storied careers in soccer history, the legend and World Cup hero is coming to Miami to play in Major League Soccer. Here is where we in the press insert countless breathless and portentous stories about what this means for American soccer, for America’s top professional league, and for Mr. By this point, many of you will have heard.
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