Word: thinker
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...When I worked with her down in Washington, D.C. for government administration, there was no one who was a sharper and clearer thinker on a whole range of legal issues,” Summers said...
...going to Monterey to ponder a big topic like the Future of Life, you can?t help but think of the marine biologist Ed Ricketts (1897-1948), a scientist who studied the myriad creatures of Monterey Bay and, more important, was a thinker far ahead of his time. Better known as the model for ?Doc?- the wise, philosophical scientist in John Steinbeck?s books Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday and The Sea of Cortez- Ricketts preached the idea that all life was related, from the sardines that once swarmed by the billions off the California coast to the people who depended...
...Libeskind, 57, who was thrust into fame three years ago with his first building. In the late 1980s, when he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Libeskind's name was known only to people who followed architectural theory. Though he was a respected teacher and thinker, he had never built anything. But when the Jewish Museum opened in 2000, with its broken-thunderbolt design and the shock-cut diagonals of its windows, it instantly made him one of the most sought-after architects in the world...
Henry David Thoreau is considered a thoroughly American thinker, but in 1854, when he wrote, "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothing," he proved he was also a thoroughly American male. As many a wife and mother will attest, Thoreau's wariness toward fashion is a gender trait that persists to this day. But as frustrating as male shopping avoidance may be for women, their angst is nothing compared with that of menswear manufacturers and retailers...
...runs a garage around the corner from where Achrak was killed. Civil-rights activist or self-interested agitator? Abou Jahjah may be a little bit of both. But Belgians shouldn't expect him to quiet down anytime soon - he's running for Parliament in June. - By JOHN MILLER/Antwerp THE THINKER Shaker Assem, 38, Germany The six policemen who woke shaker Assem and his family early on the morning of Nov. 12 were polite and respectful. "Maybe they knocked a little too loudly on the door, but otherwise they were very professional," he says. The surprise visit to Assem's Duisberg...