Word: thinker
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...remember those WMD?) to cloak what was, more broadly, a neo-Wilsonian mission of spreading democracy. The two primary realists in the Bush court, Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft, were the most prominent castoffs by the end of the first term. And Condoleezza Rice, for years a sophisticated realist thinker in the mold of her mentor Scowcroft, underwent a post-9/11 conversion to the belief that there was no longer a useful distinction between democracy-crusading idealism and national-security realism...
...children to their homeland, after having left 18 years earlier because of the mother’s desire to avoid her husband. Their return is prompted by the mother’s desire for her eldest daughter to follow in her footsteps and become the next free radical feminist thinker. However, her plans become complicated when a dentist falls in love with the daughter and the dentist’s landlord happens to be the childrens’ father. “The exposure to the most influential British playwright of the 20th century is an opportunity you can?...
...undergrads, I think I’ve found a great piece of summer reading for incoming freshmen. “The God Delusion” is bound to be provocative, and whether you’re a stalwart Christian or life-long agnostic, this book’s a thinker. As you’re reading, you’ll find yourself fruitlessly (most of the time) trying to think of comebacks against Dawkins’ line of reasoning...
...Politkovskaya was one of the remaining few who stood by values and principles for which they had fought. "That is the problem that so many dissidents have become bosses now," said Maria Rosanova, a living legend of the erstwhile Soviet dissident movement, colleague and widow of late writer and thinker Andrei Sinyavsky. Sinyavsky's trial, along with Yuri Daniel back in 1966, had marked the beginning of the dissident era of the Soviet history...
Throughout the crisis, Olmert has displayed a characteristic decisiveness. "In his meetings, everyone has a limited time to talk," says a senior aide to an Israeli government minister. "Then he makes decisions quickly. He's a fast thinker and not hesitant--for better and worse." When Hizballah took the soldiers hostage, Olmert faced a challenge. He could have opted for a limited response: in 2000, after all, five months after Israel pulled its troops out of southern Lebanon following an 18-year occupation, Hizballah kidnapped three Israeli soldiers, and Israel declined to retaliate, choosing calm over escalation and, eventually, opting...