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...Unflappable" is the word acquaintances most often apply to Christopher. His manner is methodical, even colorless, and his temper is seemingly nonexistent. That may be his greatest qualification for dealing with the mercurial Iranians. Says former Governor Brown: "I regard him as one of the ablest men I have ever met. He's diplomatic. He's skillful. He's fair." Carter paid a similar compliment last week in awarding Christopher the Medal of Freedom: "He is indeed outstanding." Privately, Carter added that he regrets not having named Christopher to succeed Griffin Bell as Attorney General...
...league are generally poor, many blacks regard it as a middle-class organization, but Jordan has won the respect of blacks from all backgrounds. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, calls Jordan "one of the ablest and most articulate voices in the civil and human rights movement...
Stane Dolanc, 54, a tough, Stane Dolanc, 54, a tough, widely traveled Central Committee member from Slovenia who is considered by some to be the party's ablest and most ambitious behind-the-scenes politician...
...courtroom fastidiousness of mind," as another Faculty member labels it, is most apparent in the process that Bok constantly identifies as his most important task: making appointments. "Care in making appointments is crucial," Bok said in 1976, "for Harvard can easily survive a mediocre president if it appoints the ablest professors, but the institution will go downhill steadily if mediocre appointments are allowed to be made...
...procedure is double-edged. Oxford's J.L. Mackie, perhaps the ablest of today's atheistic philosophers, offers nonsupernatural explanations for such evidence, and raises the problem, as old as the Book of Job, of evil. The existence of evil is no "knockdown disproof of an omnipotent and wholly good God," he says, but it does make God , improbable. Plantinga renovates the theist's classic reply to this: the free will argument. Examining whether a semifictional, corrupt Boston mayor would have taken smaller bribes in other "possible worlds," he argues that even an all-powerful God cannot create...