Missed Op-Ed

While it is nice that you reprinted some of the op-eds written by KSG community members in your last issue, you forgot one very important one. Jonathan Moore wrote a brilliant piece titled, “Waging War/Building Peace.” It ran in the Boston Globe on September 22. It was very insightful and articulate. Moore, by the way, was the director of the IOP for 12 years and is currently an ambassador to the UN, as well as an associate at the Joan Shorenstein Center.

Just bringing this to your attention.

Eric Andersen
Cambridge, MA

Editors’ response:
We agree that Jonathan Moore’s op-ed
was an important contribution to the Kennedy School’s discussion on terrorism. Unfortunately, his article appeared in the Globe after the Bulletin went to press,
preventing us from including it in the autumn issue.

Valuable Information

Hearty congratulations on the autumn 2001 issue of the KSG Bulletin! In addition to Lory Hough’s excellent cover feature on terrorism in America, I found a number of other stimulating and informative contributions elsewhere in the issue.

I’m working on a book (on incentives to improve education), and two short
articles in the “From the Charles” section provided ideas that I will have to think through and incorporate in it. Professors Kaplan, Kelman, and Metzenbaum’s piece on performance management relates closely to my subject and led me to a document on the KSG Web site, to which I will make reference, while Visiting Professor Robert Behn’s short article on accountability helped crystalize my thoughts for a chapter on external standards and accountability in education. Then the note on page 33 about the Ford Foundation’s historic grant to the Institute for Government Innovation made me aware that there is a “sister” organization operating in Chile, where I now live.

My Dad used to say that if you got one good, usable idea from a book, it was a worthwhile read. On that basis, the autumn issue is a winner! Thanks, and keep it up.

Robert McMeekin MPA 1967, PhD 1973 Santiago, Chile