Word: thinker
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...Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen,” started as a letter explaining imaginary numbers to Michel Chaouli, a professor of German and comparative literature at Indiana University. Chaouli praised Mazur extensively in an e-mail, calling him “the most remarkable thinker I have ever met.” Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies, who teaches Quantitative Reasoning 28, “The Magic of Numbers,” with Mazur, has seen his colleague’s teaching ability first hand. Elkies says that it is Mazur?...
...whose resources the whole world depends upon and one that is rife with ruthless dictatorships that spawn much of the world's terrorist activity. So was the war worth it? That depends. Is human freedom worth it? Garry Chapman Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. Your "wide array of experts and thinkers" was largely characterized by hand-wringing, worrywart American élites (save for Tommy Franks) who opined that Iraq is a disaster. Those who live in the Middle East and have a direct investment in democracy, however, see the value of the U.S.'s hard-fought quest to stabilize Iraq, defeat...
...egregious error in leading the cause for Summers’ ouster, “Harvard has to stop pretending it’s a liberal arts school.” He is not alone in this assesment: most students support Summers because he seems to be a straight thinker and a straight talker...
...intend to defend every part of Mahtani’s argument. I’m not sure that Dewey is really as inane as his comments—as captured by Mahtani—made him seem. In the past, I thought of Dewey as more of a moderate thinker than many others from his side of the aisle. But that’s not the point. Those who were scandalized by Mahtani’s bluntness need to take a look at their own arguments and ask themselves why, exactly, they were so shocked...
...gossip columns. "BHL," as he is known at home, exploded onto the literary scene at age 28 with Barbarism with a Human Face, in which he excoriated Marxist intellectuals for complicity in communist horrors. In 30-odd books since then, he has remained provocative and, unusually for a French thinker, pro-American. "I have been coming to the U.S. for 40 years," says Lévy, 57, from an airport lounge in Washington, amid a punishingly long book tour. "My wife [Connecticut-born actress Arielle Dombasle] is Franco-American. I have strong links with the U.S. Yet I discovered...