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Lots of things fit. Bradley, the thinker, likes long drives on his day off, while Gore, the fighter, prefers water skiing. Bradley picked the sugar-free, protein-laden cashew as his snack of choice, while his colleagues admitted to mainlining cupcakes and Three Musketeers bars. Gore, the Harvard-educated, alpha male in training, named Shakespeare in Love as his favorite movie, while Hatch chose Simon Birch, a peculiar film about a dwarf who believes God selected him for a heroic mission. In another life, Hatch says, he would like to be in the CIA. It may be just as well...
...attend Harvard Business School, Bing offers alternative strategies for conquering any industry--provided you are willing to forsake sentiment, human decency and, if need be, close family members. His slim, sardonic primer on workplace ruthlessness applies the teachings of the man he calls "the first truly modern amoral thinker" to the modern business world, where malevolence and blinding self-love are demonstrated assets. With sly humor, Bing answers the book's title question in brief chapters with such headings as "He would do what he feels like doing, you idiot." Would-be tyrants, take note...
...century's greatest thinker, as an immigrant who fled from oppression to freedom, as a political idealist, he best embodies what historians will regard as significant about the 20th century. And as a philosopher with faith both in science and in the beauty of God's handiwork, he personifies the legacy that has been bequeathed to the next century...
Especially when, as in Justice, one spends such little time on each great philosopher, the best of whom ought to command an eternity of study. It is simply impossible to understand, or even appreciate, a great thinker in one week--if you can, chances are he's not a great thinker. But in order to give a general introduction to moral philosophy, Justice sacrifices depth for breadth. In this case, necessity is the mother of imperfection...
ANDREI SAKHAROV For me this scientist, thinker and humanist is the Person of the Century. He was not a professional politician, but heads of state and the world's leading politicians paid attention to his words. Sakharov was an instrumental member of the team that created the [Soviet] hydrogen bomb, but he was also one of the first people to realize the danger posed to humanity by nuclear weapons. Moved by his conscience and his ethical convictions, academician Sakharov dared to publicly challenge the all-powerful machine of the totalitarian state. In the hardest years of the Soviet system...