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Muskie had a reputation as the hardest Senator on Capitol Hill to work for. He had an expansive intellect and a volcanic temper, which, Albright says, "he admitted to me he used as a device." His style with aides was prosecutorial. He would warn them in advance: "My rule is I want to know everything everybody else knows about this--and more." To work for him amounted to training with Jesuits, dissecting one's faith and then reassembling it. At dinner he'd even challenge an aide about his or her wine selection...
...luggish. But in his looming silence, Foreman was supernally intimidating--the shadow of death, everyone said, in what would surely be Ali's last, humiliating battle. Before the fight, "Ali's dressing room was like a morgue," says Norman Mailer, who as always is a top cornerman of the intellect, a brilliant intuiter of other men's fear and resolve...
Measures of intelligence are inevitably imperfect and contingent on concepts of what "intelligence" consists in. Last week's mishap serves as another reminder of the flexibility of the human mind in evading narrow constructions which would define its capacities. It also challenges those who would evaluate intellect to question, and perhaps to broaden, their criteria...
This week has already brought Colin Rizzio an acceptance from one college to which he had applied. Perhaps, while he is still in the mood for filling out applications, he should look into a position at ETS as well; as his discovery has demonstrated, even those who would evaluate intellect still have something to learn...
...roles in A pictures: as Sean Penn's nemesis in Oliver Stone's U-Turn and as James Carville, more or less, in the Mike Nichols film Primary Colors. "He's a redneck artist," says Nichols. "Like Nicholson, Travolta and Whoopi Goldberg, he can play street characters with enormous intellect. He has a genius for connecting with people...