News from February 2019
Professor Eugene Bardach on Lessons From a Former Student
In February 2002, a recent alum, Al Fitzpayne (MPP '98) wrote me a delicious letter describing his success in a job search. He was one of two finalists for the position of tax and budget adviser to a US Senator. The decisive round of the selection contest was to be a mock memo to the Senator on an obscure question of US tax policy, about which he, of course, new nothing. “Panic.” But then: “The experience of having…