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Cover Features

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The Roots of Reagan's Leadership

by Peter Hannaford

One day last year I gave a talk at the University of Virginia on the subject of President Ronald Reagan’s comprehensive strategy for bringing the Cold War to a successful conclusion. When the floor opened for questions, I expected them to be about that topic. Instead, the first was, “Can you tell us the source of Reagan’s character?”

Tough-Minded and Optimistic: GE Follows Reagan's Path to Success

by Jeffrey Immelt

When people ask me to describe GE, I say we are “an optimistic, confident, and tough-minded growth company; one that is dedicated to solving the world’s toughest problems.” In many ways we could have learned that from Ronald Reagan.

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Education 

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Better Schools, Stronger Principals

by Laura Bush

President Bush and I are excited about the work of the Bush Institute, particularly this work in the area of education. We believe that every child deserves a quality education . . . that children can succeed in school when they have caring adults in their lives who are committed to helping them achieve . . . and that a great education is possible with great leadership.

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Social Concerns

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Jailhouse Religion, Spiritual Transformation, and Long-Term Change

by Byron Johnson

Most of us have heard stories of a drug addict or alcoholic who overcomes addiction as a result of a religious transformation. Likewise, we often hear stories of criminals and prisoners who have experienced dramatic turnarounds as a result of a spiritual conversion.

Multiplying Effective Charity

by Amy L. Sherman

Everyone knows the “give a man a fish . . . teach a man to fish” parable, but in an important way, this time-honored principle is strangely absent from the philanthropic world. Some 75,000 charitable foundations in the United States give away around $43 billion dollars annually to nonprofit organizations.

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Reflections

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Shutting Down the Shuttle

by Alan W. Dowd

Barring a dramatic change of heart in Congress and the White House, the space shuttle program has counted down to its final takeoff. Once the shuttles are mothballed and shipped off to the museums, the United States will have no way of delivering its own astronauts into space, at least not for the foreseeable future.