Word: thinker
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...time I got to college, though, I'd decided that I wanted to be a history professor. I was excited by the prospect of ensconcing myself in Widener Library behind a hard wooden desk, poring over the relatively obscure works of Nicolo Machiavelli, illuminating the great thinker's inner thoughts...
...reputation [among students in his class] is to be a deep thinker, [rather than] someone who would do arithmetical computations off the top of his head," Dasgupta says...
Gore's way of approaching the world--devouring all available information and breaking it down into pieces he can hold in his hand and turn over in his mind--has won him a reputation as a forward thinker on difficult issues. But it doesn't always help in politics. (Take, for example, the least effective bite-size phrase of Gore's career: "No controlling legal authority," a snippet of legalese he picked up from his counsel, Charles Burson, and repeated seven times during his disastrous March money-scandal press conference.) Gore has spent the past six years studying the master...
...Republicans tired of Gingrich, Paxon, 43, is the perfect antidote. Where Gingrich has said he wants to be "the leading teacher of 21st century American civilization," Paxon sheepishly admits to being "a regular guy" and "not much of a big thinker." And while Gingrich is famous for his discourses on subjects such as the democratic possibilities of information technology, Paxon's whole political philosophy can be summed up in three phrases: cut taxes, shrink government and above all, elect Republicans. That Paxon doesn't have Gingrich's expansive intellectual range--or combativeness--suits many of Paxon's compatriots just fine...
...assistant Jeannie VanVelkinburgh picked it up for him, Thill opened fire. Dia died in minutes; VanVelkinburgh, a single mother of two boys, is paralyzed from the waist down. "It wasn't a planned thing," Thill told local station KMGH-TV. "Drank a little bit. I'm a deep thinker. Walked through town with my gun in my waist, saw the black guy and thought he didn't belong where...