Word: intellective
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...many of your students and faculty, but the Harvard name no longer has the luster that it one had on an applicant's resum. I deal with post-graduates on an almost daily basis, and in recent years, those who came from Harvard have been deficient in their base intellect as well as in their education--and these same people had spectacular grades on their transcripts...
...Arabs see these anti-Israel groups more as freedom fighters than as terrorists. Islamic scholars meeting last month in Mecca came up with a terrorism definition of their own: "all acts of aggression committed by individuals, groups or states against human beings, including attacks on their religion, life, intellect or property." That's a sweeping explication which could easily include the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan or Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes and exclude the activities of Hamas and Hizballah. One reason for optimism, though: Arab governments want to crack down on terrorists just as much as the Americans...
...Everyone recognized that she has a very keen intellect. One of the things that stood out was that Professor Sullivan was a member of a subset of [HLS] professors to whom students could readily relate," says Ross S. Antonson, who served as one of HLS's 1992 class marshals and is now a senior attorney at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis...
...sell "Exposé," her public-access show in which she "interviews celebrities while dressed in go-go boots, short skirt and 'Flashdance'-homage crop-top." Billing herself as " a hot blonde with a masters degree and a mini-skirt," she explains that her "groupie girl wardrobe" belies her intellect. I peruse the list of "stars" she has interviewed so far and recognize just one: Kevin Cronin, lead singer of REO Speedwagon, which last had a hit in 1982. This show will be a tough sale...
...media keep carping about Bush's IQ and inevitably end up comparing him with Bill Clinton, who is said to have the best memory in Washington. But Clinton, despite his prodigious intellect, didn't have the brains to keep his pants on in the Oval Office. There is more than one kind of intelligence. RICHARD A. DUNN Providence...