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...Greer is disgusted by a vulgar fellow like Irwin, just as she has previously been disgusted by Australia's vulgar choice of prime minister, its lack of culture, its shameful history and so much else Australian that doesn't meet the standards of her refined intellect (how she must have agonized before accepting the invitation to appear on Celebrity Big Brother). Let's pay tribute to that intellect by employing her rhetorical device of invented quote and response. I imagine her yelling: "I am a loathsome creature who lacks human feeling and has so completely lost touch with Australia that...
...Greer is disgusted by a vulgar fellow like Irwin, just as she has previously been disgusted by Australia's vulgar choice of prime minister, its lack of culture, its shameful history and so much else Australian that doesn't meet the standards of her refined intellect (how she must have agonized before accepting the invitation to appear on Celebrity Big Brother). Let's pay tribute to that intellect by employing her rhetorical device of invented quote and response. I imagine her yelling: "I am a loathsome creature who lacks human feeling and has so completely lost touch with Australia that...
Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic, said that Summers’ university expertise and intellect made him a good choice for the blog...
...executives, they say, don't get that. So, what are the five disciplines? For starters, pick important, not merely interesting problems. Douglas Engelbart, the SRI engineer who invented the computer mouse and hypertext, had his team aim to "make the world a better place by augmenting and extending human intellect." Such outrageous ambition yielded the foundations of personal computing...
...have had ?Zapatero's Spain" in mind when, on the eve of the conclave that chose him to replace Pope John Paul II, he denounced ?the dictatorship of relativism" in a powerful and oft-cited speech to his fellow Cardinals. In the 15 months since, the pontiff?s fierce intellect and clear ideas on repairing Catholicism's troubles on its home continent have turned him into a sort of anti-Zapatero. And he has, indeed, kept a close eye on Spain. When he welcomed the newly appointed Spanish ambassador to the Holy See on May 20, Benedict went beyond...