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...what of the following sentence: "Unlike earlier periods when one demonstrated one's intellect by how much one knew, i.e., how many facts one has at her/his command, increasingly we recognize the mark of intellect to be the capacity independently to analyze, manipulate, synthesize and critically interpret information in the interest of problem solving." In other words, it is now more important to know how to think than to have anything concrete to think about. Perhaps facts can be imported from Japan. Now, may we see a show of hands on all this...
...Rehnquist is the muscle behind the present conservative majority, Scalia provides the intellect. Despite his affable manner, Scalia can be intense in debate and uncompromising in his rulings. As the only present court member who was once a full-time law professor, he is prone to lecture his colleagues -- sometimes in injudicious terms. In a 1988 concurring opinion, for example, he called one of O'Connor's arguments "irrational" and said of another that "it cannot be taken seriously...
...know I needed to be named. It changed my life. That's where I first got the inkling that I might want to be a scholar, to serve my people through print. How could anybody deny -- left, right or center -- the importance of that experience in shaping a young intellect? What we have to do is change the curriculum so that that experience of identification can occur for people who are not Anglo-Saxon...
...historians gave Reagan low marks on nearly everything, from his mind (92% said he did not have the right intellect for the job) to Administration corruption (exceeded only by Nixon's government). He got little credit for ushering in a new era of prosperity but received most of the blame for the deficits and the 1981-82 recession...
...without repaying a cent of their investment, Mackintosh aims to show a profit after 36 weeks, a timetable he accomplished with Miss Saigon in London. Such claims of financial wizardry might be suspect from almost anyone else but this disarmingly frank and casual ex-stagehand. A keen intellect with a common touch, he presented four of the foremost international hits of the '80s, Cats, Phantom, Les Miz and Little Shop of Horrors, and is regarded as the world's nonpareil producer...