Word: intellect
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Kevin Shea, Red Sox director of Media Relations, said that Woodfork will contribute significantly to a front office that blends intellect and youthful energy with veteran baseball minds...
Franks gets along with Rumsfeld--who doesn't suffer fools lightly, especially if they are in uniform--because he has the right mix of attitude and intellect. More than a dozen senior officers who have worked with him over the years say that behind the aw-shucks, I've-never-had-sushi wrapping is a very well-oiled military mind. In an interview with TIME, Rumsfeld heaped praise on his field marshal for being open to new ideas. "He's intelligent and quick, and he knows his stuff," Rumsfeld said. "He has total ownership over these matters. He cares only...
...most remarkable thing about Mister Rogers was not that he loved children, although that was apparent to anyone who observed him even for a moment. It's that he respected children, not just for their ability to amuse or inspire, but for their intellect, their inherent sense of right, and their penchant for honesty. For 33 years, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" provoked laughter, wild feats of imagination and a sense of uniqueness in the children who were fortunate enough to spend 30 minutes in Mister Rogers' televised presence. And as for the children who actually spent time with the real person...
...world “probably know you better than they do George W. Bush.” The President now seems less executive and more regent than he has ever been before—an acute problem for his reputation abroad given the low esteem in which his intellect is held by the foreign press...
...fact is that these charges, which are mindlessly repeated, are pure political persiflage to block the confirmation of a powerful conservative intellect, who because of that intellect, his Central American ethnicity, his relative youth and his compelling life story may one day be an attractive candidate for the Supreme Court. I wonder if Estrada had not been an emigrant from Honduras whether the Democrats—not to mention the Congressional Hispanic Caucus by which many set such store—would even have taken notice, much less thought this nomination was worth the high political costs of a filibuster...