Several reformers asked me why, instead of talking to jaded students or pushy musicians, I wasn't writing, for example, about five young human rights activists in the provincial town of Hamadan who are said to have been slammed in jail.
Banerjee, who became one of her thesis advisers, said that Duflo was "extraordinarily bright, but not like your average pushy student.
One particularly pushy student acquaintance boasted that he had persuaded Williams to supervise him, but the rest of us tried and failed.
It was no surprise when he was selected to be a Rhodes Scholar, nor that this pushy but charming student with the pronounced Arkansas drawl became a focal point of the group.
Its senior employees have lifetime tenure and there are plenty of other tough constituencies, from pushy alumni to students who are paying through the nose to be there.The job of a university president is shrinking from being a public intellectual to being a mere fund-raiser, and a temporary one at that.
Having raised two daughters, one a graduate of Wellesley, the other of Barnard, Ms. Campbell, 51, a Radcliffe graduate, brings to her relationships with her students the qualities of a pushy, upper-middle-class mother who doesn't want her children to miss any opportunity for intellectual growth -- or to eat junk food.
The advisor must discover when and where to step in on a project and move a student along, without being too intrusive and pushy, or, on the other hand, too aloof.
Male students were described as rational, confident, demanding, provoking, pushy, competitive, as overestimating themselves and as taking up a great deal of space.
Pushy parents are putting more pressure on students, according to the head of Eton.
She is successful, driven, and (unkinder souls might say) incredibly pushy, with the capacity to reduce grad students to tears.
