Word: intellect
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...full-foot gap in height. He loves sports and military history and wears sweatpants; I adore poetry and trail empty coffee cups and dangly earrings. His primary activities at Harvard have been organizing intramurals and mentoring a boy from Dorchester; mine has been writing for The Crimson. His intellect and strong sense of justice hide underneath a façade of goofy humor and rebelliousness; my sense of humor jumps out from behind a screen of passionate literary and political chatter...
Halberstam, who was well known for his defiance of the military’s sanguine reports on the intervention in Vietnam in the 1960s, says that the role of the journalist was beginning to require a more investigative intellect in the post-war period, as the U.S. grew to assume a more prominent role in international affairs...
...Harvard, to the Brooklyn-born Limpert, also offered a reprieve from the unbridled materialism of New York City. He says he remembers Boston as a place where intellect was privileged above all else...
...willing to learn from HarvardI mean this in the broadest possible sense. Take courses that will challenge your intellect and your conceptions of the world. Participate in discussions that force you to defend how you think, and never be afraid to change your mind. Most importantly, understand that Harvard draws from two different pools of peoplethose who want to be the status quo and those who want to change it. Far too often, those who come to Harvard to change the world have their idealism and creativity sapped by what they feel to be a suffocating atmosphere. Instead of thinking...
...requires the right personality and a myriad of skills. As one of John Paul's closest confidants, the new Pope knows best where to begin his pontificate, presumably without departing significantly from his predecessor's agenda. Benedict may well fool his critics by becoming more than the intellect-driven, dogmatically conservative transitional figure they expect him to be. My first impression of his papacy is that it is promising. Daniel Breitenmoser St. Gallen, Switzerland Praise God for a conservative Pope. The world does not need a Pope who would bend to its questionable secular values. What is necessary...