Word: thinker
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Gore's way of approaching the world--devouring all available information and breaking it down into pieces he can hold in his hand and turn over in his mind--has won him a reputation as a forward thinker on difficult issues. But it doesn't always help in politics. (Take, for example, the least effective bite-size phrase of Gore's career: "No controlling legal authority," a snippet of legalese he picked up from his counsel, Charles Burson, and repeated seven times during his disastrous March money-scandal press conference.) Gore has spent the past six years studying the master...
...Republicans tired of Gingrich, Paxon, 43, is the perfect antidote. Where Gingrich has said he wants to be "the leading teacher of 21st century American civilization," Paxon sheepishly admits to being "a regular guy" and "not much of a big thinker." And while Gingrich is famous for his discourses on subjects such as the democratic possibilities of information technology, Paxon's whole political philosophy can be summed up in three phrases: cut taxes, shrink government and above all, elect Republicans. That Paxon doesn't have Gingrich's expansive intellectual range--or combativeness--suits many of Paxon's compatriots just fine...
Unlike his prior, mostly passive investments in Citi, Apple Computer and Disneyland Paris, this time Alwaleed is buying with an intent to take a more active hand with management. Murdoch might find that interesting. He also might find himself with a like-minded partner. Alwaleed is a global thinker, and in the media business, nobody is more global than Murdoch. The prince apparently hopes that entrenching himself in high-tech media-related outfits may help make him a king of communications in the Middle East--or, in due course, an emperor like Murdoch. Says Alwaleed: "I want to concentrate...
...assistant Jeannie VanVelkinburgh picked it up for him, Thill opened fire. Dia died in minutes; VanVelkinburgh, a single mother of two boys, is paralyzed from the waist down. "It wasn't a planned thing," Thill told local station KMGH-TV. "Drank a little bit. I'm a deep thinker. Walked through town with my gun in my waist, saw the black guy and thought he didn't belong where...
...spending that much. Is the strategy to crank up some dazzling results and then snag a buyer? Is Calley just a caretaker? This is his second turn at the helm of a Hollywood studio; he headed Warner Brothers from 1967 to 1980. An engagingly candid, out-of-the-box thinker, Calley, 67, is nevertheless running a business that has changed drastically. Some in the industry wonder whether he has the will or the wile to stay in for the long haul...