Word: person
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...emphasis we place on formal education rests on a belief that someone who is intelligent must be "book-smart" or "well-read." Especially at Harvard, we stress that an intelligent person needs to know such information as who Kierkegaard was, what Tolstoy wrote and why the Boer War was fought. While this information may be important in a certain context, it is not a sufficient test of who is "smart...
Completely lost on Chavez is that decisions such as Brown, and now Yonkers, do not bring victory with negative prohibitions but with recognition of the massive reconfiguration necessary for society to ensure equality. The courts need to go beyond simply affirming the rights of one person to attend one school...
...think anybody can steal a march on Al Vellucci," says William Noble, a leader of the Cambridge Tenants Union. "He's sort of a unique person in the city...
PRESIDENT Reagan announced recently that neither Adm. John Pointdexter nor Lt. Col. Oliver North will receive a pardon. Will their trial be a witch hunt? Should they expect long person terms? A key precedent can be found in what happened to Pointdexter's and North's Iranian counterparts...
...Iran, bringing with him a cake and a bible for the Ayatollah. The question in Iran was, who ate the cake? The Holy Court spent days trying to determine the culprit--following what the Tehran newspapers gleefully called "The Trail of Crumbs"--until the investigations led to Akeem, the person who drove McFarlane to the airport...