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...Megawati's critics say her preference for public silence masks a dim intellect. That may be too harsh, but she has few discernible beliefs other than a garbled echo of her father's nationalism and a disdain for regional autonomy. On July 22, when Wahid tried to declare a state of emergency and dissolve parliament, Megawati went to the movies to see Shrek with her grandchildren. On her second day in office, when she might have been lobbying the national assembly for her pick for Vice President, she attended a fashion show at a posh Jakarta hotel...
...Sayyaf. She rings her own network of contacts, built up during her days in the Senate and as Estrada's Vice President and Social Welfare Secretary. Says Rigoberto Tiglao, the palace spokesman: "As President, you get so much advice?wrong or right?that after a while, if your intellect isn't that good, you stop trying to process it and you hide in a cocoon of close advisers. But President Arroyo is always checking things out with her own sources." She despises gossip and fuzziness, and her demand for "empirical evidence" has become a palace mantra...
...President Clinton's ability to persuade and lead the Europeans, despite substantial policy differences, rested primarily on his intellect. The former Rhodes Scholar displayed a legendary ability to grasp and synthesize the arguments of his European counterparts, and to articulate U.S. positions in ways that sought to plausibly address their concerns. The Europeans may have disagreed with Clinton on many issues, but they respected his mind...
...first time interviewing with some members of the search committee, but others were encountering his renowned intellect for the first time...
...were looking for someone with a superior intellect and an understanding of the Academy, someone who would command the respect of the Faculty, and someone who had a vision for the future,” explained one committee member...