Word: intellect
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...Harvard, and to a lesser extent, throughout the United States, Texas Gov. George W. Bush's intellect has become the running joke of the presidential campaign. And let's face the facts: Dubya is no Albert Einstein. But more to the point, when it comes to brains, he isn't exactly Vice President Al Gore '69 either. Even a cursory glance at economic history, however, reveals that intelligence does not generally translate into prosperity. In fact, if the American people are smart, they may want to elect a president who is dumb...
...national politicians into the public arena. When he blatantly lied and publicly denied any "sexual relations with that woman," President Clinton opened the door for the American public and international media to examine and evaluate a candidate on more than his record, his stance on issues and his intellect. He invited them to throw personal character into the lot as well...
...Clearly, Gore won the debate," said Raj Prabhakar, a student at Harvard Business School. "Bush didn't have the intellect to compete...
Sustained by media generated sound bytes and oversimplifications, the American intellect is starved of any real knowledge of the Indian subcontinent. Pigeonholed into a single-issue agenda, Americans are left with a portrait of the country that is both inaccurate and ill-informed. To most Americans, India is a nation embroiled in a nuclear arms race with Pakistan and an ethnic battle over the state of Kashmir. The victim of news analyses too watered down and politicized to be of any real informational use, the depth and complexity of the country's social, political and economic condition are lost...
...composer. He can be emotional (as on Airport Sadness), but he is never weepy. He can be jaunty (West Hartford), but he never descends into trifling silliness. And while his work tends to be courageously complex (the dizzyingly cerebral Amsterdam), he never gets lost in the labyrinth of his intellect. "Memory can make a location more 'real' than it ever was in reality," he notes. This album takes us to places we could never visit, except while riding on the shoulders of Mehldau's gigantic talent...