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...Bush's policies. Given the current political climate, however, Soros could spend his money more effectively by developing a media alternative to extreme right-wing-propaganda outlets?perhaps a public-affairs forum with General Wesley Clark as host. Clark has the experience (in the military, foreign affairs, media, politics), intellect and personality to carry a major opinion show. It would be a match made in heaven for liberal-leaning citizens. Ethan Raphael Vancouver...
...brother and the uncertainty of how to live life away from the movies. Garrel also manages to convince at being unsure of how to live with conflicting feelings of love for his sister, Matthew and confusion at life. Pitt, however, never quite convinces the audience of his superior intellect and inner strength; he seems too confused to react as decisively as he does and too decisive to be as confused as he should be considering the behavior around him. Not to worry ladies, both Garrel and Pitt also offer plenty full-frontal nudity. Almost the entirety of the film?...
...named Nanu. "Here," she realized, "was my replacement slave." At moments like this we sense the sadness of the stories we will never read, the stories of those who lived as slaves and died that way. Jacobs, Tubman and Nazer are miraculous exceptions, blessed with the iron will, steely intellect and golden luck required to survive an ordeal that spared only the truly indomitable. The lives of most of their fellow sufferers will remain unwritten...
Despite the Phi Beta Kappa member’s academic prowess, his friends say that he does not flaunt his intellect. “That’s the really cool thing—you can hang out with him and not know that he’s really smart; he hides it really well,” says Michael S. Goggin ’04, Niehaus’s roommate from freshman year...
...merits of firepower vs. brainpower--of outward force vs. inside knowledge--are debatable. In Keegan's commonsense (and somewhat unfashionable) view, "War is ultimately about doing, not thinking." Despite periodic triumphs of espionage and applied intellect--those of Bletchley Park's decrypters against the German Enigma codes of World War II, for example--the value of intelligence in war, Keegan thinks, may be limited or illusory. "Knowledge, the conventional wisdom has it, is power; but knowledge cannot destroy or deflect or damage or even defy an offensive initiative by an enemy unless the possession of knowledge is also allied...