Word: thinker
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...central casting's notion of what the Americans call a wonk: the serious, policy-driven young man who can argue for hours in a windowless conference room about the fine points of progressive taxation. He is also seriously charming, disarmingly direct and an unusual marriage of fresh thinker and hustling entrepreneur. In his previous life, he organized rock concerts for Labour, consulted on telecommunications, wrote books and founded the respected Third Way think tank Demos. After working for Blair at Downing Street, where he helped launch programs to cut poverty and unemployment, he became an officially nonpartisan civil servant last...
...Equally strong, said Delong, would be his ability to plan for the University's future. Summers, he said, is a central thinker about the emerging New Economy and is deeply interested in the ramifications it will have for the world...
Heraclitus - "the obscure philosopher," the pre-Socratic thinker who was a contemporary 2,500 years ago of Confucius, Lao Tzu and the Buddha - is best known as the man who said that you cannot put your foot into the same river twice...
...received his doctorate in economics from Harvard and at 28 became the youngest tenured professor in Harvard history. His rise to the post of Treasury Secretary during the Clinton Administration was equally swift and marked with success. A major participant in the Mexican bailout, he is a respected thinker on issues of globalization. Though Summers is well-connected in Washington, there is little indication that undergraduate education is his primary interest. And while he has a broad view of education from a global perspective, his views on specific issues of pedagogy and higher education are unknown...
Even then, Bollinger was an "exceptionally bright and energetic thinker," remembers Robert L. Palmer, who was Bollinger's classmate at Columbia and another editor at the law review...