Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Clinton sometimes has trouble getting respect too. He wants history to remember him as a great strategic thinker, so he needs to set U.S.-China relations, the most perilous on the globe, on the right track for the next century. Up to now he hasn't defined the terms of that connection very well, Republicans and many Democrats have formed a China-bashing alliance, and groups with a host of complaints about issues from human rights to trade browbeat the Administration to treat China as a pariah. Like Jiang, Clinton has to persuade his countrymen that the People...
Allison said administrators selected Gore to speak because he is an "active thinker" on academic questions, as well as a Harvard graduate...
West said that after a lifetime of building an intellectual foundation, he is just beginning to come of age as a thinker...
...husband but has done so only from the sidelines in an unofficial capacity; facing the empty nest, she thought of adopting a baby. Says longtime friend Diane Blair, a member of Hillary's inner circle: "She was trying to figure out how she could be who she is--a thinker, a doer--without arousing hostility from those who felt she was overstepping her bounds. I think she's figured it out." A former White House official puts it more bluntly: "Fundamentally, Hillary was seared, and seared badly. She's trying to carve her niche so she can be remembered...
Except for the disappointing last chapter, Larry's Party is an exceptionally good read. The self-contained nature of the individual chapters make it student-friendly--it's easy to pick back up after you've put it down for a while. Larry Weller is an interesting thinker, for an ordinary guy, and his internal thoughts and comments are thoughts and comments are thought-provoking and fascinating. His worries and insecurities seem familiar. Larry's a sort of Everyman, only better...