Does the personal matter?THERE’S an anecdote I heard about Hillary Clinton while I was backpacking around Europe last decade. It came from Desmond, an African American of modest background who had made it to Harvard law school. While still a student, Desmond scored a clerkship at Clinton’s Rose Law Firm in his home town of Little Rock, Arkansas. The soon-to-be first lady asked Desmond to draft a court document, which he duly submitted. Clinton was too busy to look at the text, and Desmond’s stint ended before he could get feedback. But an apologetic Clinton sent the document in the mail, replete with meticulous corrections and……
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