Word: intellect
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Skilling. It was Skilling who provided the strategic vision behind Enron, who transformed its old gas-pipeline culture into a swaggering, rule-breaking, dealmaking cult that ultimately mislaid its analytical skills and perhaps its moral compass. Skilling, a Harvard M.B.A. and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, had a high-wattage intellect that always impressed. Even when he was a student, people who met him knew he would do something...
...President who might be more popular than she is. And now, U.S. soldiers landing on her shores. What Arroyo needs is a bulwark. But without an electoral mandate, the only source is massive public support, the kind more likely to respond to image and inspiration than intellect. To her credit, she has tried. On several occasions, she's traveled to Tondo, a rank, perilously crowded slum that has essentially been Manila's garbage dump for a decade. On her first visit, she was greeted with boos and pro-Estrada chants. Instead of fleeing, though, she scrambled ahead of her security...
Bearing the brunt of the nasty, possibly racist whispers was the 52-year-old Pakistani-born Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, the son of a Muslim convert to Christianity and a man praised for his intellect. The slurs alleged he had bought his first bishopric, lied about his age, misrepresented his academic qualifications and - horrors - was even once involved with the Catholic Church. None turned out to be true except the last charge. Nazir-Ali has admitted to being a practicing Catholic while at St. Paul's School and during a year at St. Patrick's College in Karachi...
...Hilles has left an unparalleled legacy at Radcliffe and will be remembered for her intellect and vision, as well as her extraordinary commitment and transformative gifts to Radcliffe’s major initiatives,” Faust said...
...combination of energy, boyish enthusiasm and sharp intellect has played a major role in all of our activities,” McMahon said. “His absence leaves a great void...