"Excuse me," the hardliner says, "do you have a course handout?" Iranians often make jokes to digest political upheaval, and Trump's rise to power has drawn comparisons with that of a leader closer to home – one whose eight years in office marked a deterioration in Iran-US relations.
The voice belongs to Millard Drexler, the chairman and C.E.O. of J. Crew Group, Inc., who is known to everyone as Mickey, and who, when he took over the company, seven years ago, had the loudspeaker system set up in the company's offices, near St. Marks Place, in order to communicate more directly with his charges.
Coming within his first 12 months in office, it marked a change in policy from his predecessor, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who only granted one West Papuan political prisoner clemency during his 10-year rule.
A 1971 profile that ran in Playboy described him as "a bespectacled, long-haired youth" and included a photo of him, in a rumpled shirt and a paisley tie, next to an office door marked "President" in a curiously Tolkienesque font.
Indeed, Myers et al. (2011) commented "the simple presence of an observer seems to increase BP, as marked decreases in automated office BP are evident within two minutes of the observer leaving the room" [ 55].
Yet by this week, when Jokowi, as he is known, marked 100 days in office, his biggest headaches were caused by his own party, the PDI-P.
But the most striking tale of political recovery concerns the prime minister, Narendra Modi, who marked a year in office on May 26th.
Mr. Clinton spoke of the economic good times that marked his years in office and urged Mr. Bush not to veer away from fiscal responsibility.
