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...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...
...saying that abstract thought is the best—women are much closer to reality,” he said, adding that a great thinker combines both abstract and realistic thought...
...latest passion is windsurfing) and playing with gadgets, like his new TiVo-type radio device. He's into music (he attended a recent U2 concert in Oakland) but has mostly given up the saxophone he played as a kid. Compared with Brin, Page is probably a deeper thinker and bigger nerd. I saw him preparing his keynote speech for the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas--the geek-world equivalent of the Super Bowl--nearly a month before it took place. (He ended up bringing Robin Williams onstage with him; Williams called Page "Mensa boy" and mocked...
...Here, I fear, I must break with Confucius,” the dean continued. “Sometimes we need to turn up the heat. Sometimes we need to flip that fish. Make sure it lands properly on the other side. Harvard has no better ambassador, no better thinker, no stronger leader and maybe no better cook. Join me in welcoming the president of Harvard, President Larry Summers.”The flavor of Kirby’s analogy did not sit well with the few Faculty members who caught wind of it—thanks to an online video...
...exports to the U.S. each year, but Citgo says it has set aside about 10% of its refined petroleum products for the program. Says Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C., "Unfortunately for the Bush Administration, Chavez is proving to be a more inventive thinker in terms of hemispheric politics...