Word: thinker
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...gets us closer to the dream of who we hope to become, then the gaze of the attractive, petite brunet often at Bill Bradley's side is instructive. From the beginning, academic and author Ernestine Misslbeck Schlant, 64, seemed to see him for who he wanted to be: a thinker, not just a jock; a statesman, not just a pol; sensitive and warm, not just arrogantly bright. Indeed, Dan Okimoto, Stanford professor and Bradley's college roommate, recalls that when Bradley first told him of Ernestine, he didn't start off by describing what she looked like but, rather...
...respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit: audacious, irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. I regard him as an important contemporary thinker who is determined to shatter partisan stereotypes and defy censorship wherever it occurs--notably, in this case, in the area of discourse on race, which is befogged with sanctimony and hypocrisy. As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey...
...only was he a decent person and a great thinker, but he was one of the wisest and most humane of the Sri Lankans capable of bridging the gap of militancy on both sides," said Robert Rotberg, a research associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development...
...Kishore Mahbubani spoke recently in New York City, he drew a glittering crowd of diplomats, bankers and politicians. It was an impressive audience for Singapore's U.N. ambassador, but Mahbubani is impressive, a diplomat-philosopher whose book, Can Asians Think? (Times Editions; $9.95), has made him a must-meet thinker...
...Gerhard Schroeder, German Chancellor White Knight, Thinker, Crowd-Pleaser, Difference-Splitter