Word: intellective
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...Ramon Martinez, then an upperclassman and now with the U.S. Customs Service in Washington. "The majority opinion was that he was nuts to have around," Martinez says now. "But I saw it differently. I saw a guy with his own way of doing things." Martinez enjoyed Koernke's intellect, his ability to talk at length about history or classical music. He also discerned character and bravery. Once, when the two witnessed what they feared would become a brutal hazing, Martinez watched Koernke prepare to wade in on behalf of the victim: "He was going to butt-stroke somebody to protect...
...doubt Clinton's raw intelligence, but intellect lags behind fortitude when considering the qualities that make Presidents successful. Ronald Reagan, at sea when it came to programmatic detail, was successful nonetheless because many Americans admired the strength of his convictions and his resolve in pursuing them. "We'll make some hay about Republican meanness,'' says a White House aide, "but our overarching obstacle is that many see the President as weak, as someone who doesn't stand for anything...
...health-care reform and will promise to find a way to deliver it. He will talk about the 21st century, about the need for more education reform and better technology policies. And, as senior adviser George Stephanopoulos says, he will portray himself as the candidate with "the energy and intellect of a young man, plus the experience of someone who's been President...
...what Gates and Bingaman could not have foreseen is that the case would land before the ornery intellect of Stanley Sporkin-a former chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission who never learned the meaning of the words "It's none of my business.'' The more Sporkin learned about Microsoft in hearings that began last fall, the less he liked the settlement that Gates and Bingaman had worked out and the role that he, as the reviewing judge, was being asked to perform. "I will not be played for a fool," he warned during a heated session last...
Fluent in Latin and Greek, Vienna is a Northerner who lands in the small town of Winsville to marry a man who will never appreciate her intensity or intellect. Like some fiercely independent Victorian heroines, Vienna is doomed to the life of a pariah by the narrow-mindedness of others. She is betrayed and abandoned by friends and lovers; her children remain outcasts by association; she is destroyed by the death of those dearest to her. Vienna is, above all, a woman for whom brilliance and sensuality provide a painfully meager shield against the truculence of fate...