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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...went one-two in the Reward Challenge rope course, she was definitely threatening to join the living, personality-wise. And when she stared down the horizon and uttered those unforgettable words - "Hope. Hope for a fish. A nice night with no rain." - something stirred. She was the savant, the Chauncey Gardiner of the outback, and by the end of all this we'll all be in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On A Very Stormy 'Survivor,' the Placid One Goes Gently | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

...time." In June he suggested that a Palm VII wireless organizer might improve secure communication. While he mocked the U.S. as a "powerfully built but retarded child, potentially dangerous but young, immature and easily manipulated," he worried, "it is also one that can turn ingenious quickly, like an idiot savant." And in November, even as he joked about retiring to Moscow to teach Spying 101, he wrote: "I ask you to help me survive... Wish me luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Spy | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...contrast. And 2) Alan Greenspan, Czar of All the Russias, came forth to say that W.'s tax cut might be a good idea after all. In other words, the frat boy had figured it out even before Greenspan did. W. gets an upgrade from idiot to idiot savant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Transformations — and Regressions | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...open the tape from Oklahoma. We quickly flew him out. He was brilliant, but he wasn't the character. So we crossed our fingers and threw him in with a dialect coach and 24 hours later the coach called and said "he's got it." Ryan is an idiot-savant, except he's not an idiot. He just knows...

Author: By Rebecca Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alexander the Great: From 'Seinfeld' Star to Big-Time Director | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...future: Since Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) was elected, politics has changed tremendously. With the requirements of residency and political experience thrown out, all you need to get elected anywhere is to be famous and have a reputation for being intelligent. Since Clinton's election, Marilyn Vos Savant, Stephen Hawking and Dr. Dre (street smarts) have all been elected to the House from Utah. Alex Trebek is King of Canada...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: A Vision of the Future | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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