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Finally, our Education President has produced an education policy that focuses on the individualist's fantasy: school choice. The idea is to give parents the option to choose the school for their children, and even give them vouchers for private and parochial schools...
...rugged individualist. I don't believe in handouts. I don't believe in favors. I don't believe in the politics of victimization," she says. "When you take something like [the accident] and come back from it, you don't have much sympathy for people with minor complaints...
...this made the U.S. supercomputer effort even more dependent on one man: Seymour Cray. At 63, Cray is one of the most enigmatic figures in computer science. A restless, rugged individualist of legendary idiosyncrasy (for many years he made a point of building a new sailboat every winter and, inexplicably, burning it in the fall), he has devoted his professional life, first at Control Data and later with his own firm, to building the world's most powerful computers. His track record: an unequaled series of five major computer designs dating back to 1960, each for what would...
...defiantly individualist novelist-journalist-social commentator, whose dissection of our contemporary culture has won comparisons with Dickens and Balzac, looks ahead to the '90s. Instead of the rampant greed of the waning decade, he foresees a slowing of the sexual revolution, a reviving interest in religion and a retreat from the vanities he has been chronicling so deftly...
...went to Wake Forest, Palmer's school, though Strange ceased to be a pup out of Palmer when he was snooty one time to a volunteer scorekeeper. Golf's great king slammed the young individualist publicly, along with all his modern kind, for "discourteous and ungentlemanly behavior and thoughtlessness that is despicable to me." Manners aside, Strange indicated odd priorities for such a talented man. He customarily skipped the British Open because of its proximity to his own little tournament for a brewery...