Word: intellect
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...very rare to find both a real intellect and a man of the people. Bill Clinton was last one who had the common touch - no jokes - and was a real intellectual...
...message would have been stronger if the characters were more in dialogue with one another. Outside the realm of Barrett’s book, in the life of real American Muslims, West Virginia feminists can also be interested in national politics and California mystics in Islamic intellect. The American Muslim collective is diverse, as demonstrated by Barrett’s seven categories, but some elements of each category can surely be found in each American Muslim, and this reality does not come across. Still, Barrett’s reflections on the fissures that exist between American Muslims—important...
...intersession for an intensive four-day training session with Katherine T. “Cissie” Jones, who is renowned in the (admittedly small) American polo scene, and is also Crocker Snow’s fiancé. The Harvard Polo Club seems to have it all—intellect, romance and expensive training trips. Too bad you have to be brought up riding horses to be able to play...
...Francisco 49ers in their heyday. And just watch Manning as he approaches the line of scrimmage before each down, sizing up the defense and then calling or changing the play just before the ball is snapped. To some it seems showy and egotistical, but only a true football intellect could handle the pressure. "I've heard people say, 'Aw, that stuff he's doing, he's just talking, not doing anything,'" says NBC broadcaster and Hall of Fame coach John Madden. "Baloney...
History has not been kind to brain science. From the bogus discipline of phrenology--which claimed that the quality of the mind was reflected in the bumps on the skull--to the ultimately racist field of craniometry, which asserted that intellect could be determined merely by measuring the head, much early work on the brain was nonsense or worse. But today's powerful scanners now allow us to see inside the head as never before. Detailed maps of thousands of genes reveal the DNA blueprint that allows the brain to exist at all. More powerful psychoactive drugs let us understand...