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...street, the president as well as his adversaries are hoping to address America's social ills. The problem is that in the long run, as we have thus far witnessed, any plan that does not engage the community is bound to fail. As Michael Sandel, a political thinker who teaches government here, contends, good government requires what he calls "successful republican (small r, to be sure!) soulcraft" and involves a gentler kind of tutelage. For example, the political economy of citizenship that informed 19th-century American life sought to cultivate not only commonality but also the independence and judgement...
William Julius Wilson's books, says Bill Clinton, "made me see race and poverty and the problems of the inner city in a different light." Indeed, no thinker has done more than the 60-year-old sociologist to explain why the black underclass sank into such misery and isolation at the same time millions of other African Americans were escaping from the ghetto to create a vibrant middle class...
...Tosteson is a thinker, a decision maker and a leader," Carnesale said in a written statement. "He [has] the ability to identify the truly important aspects of any problem or issue, the willingness to decide on--and take responsibility for--a course of action and the skill required to persuade others of the merit of the decision...
...Teach thinkers to think,--a needed knowledge in a day of loose and careless logic; and they whose lot is gravest must have the carefulest training to think aright.... [T]he thinker must think for truth, not for fame." --W.E.B. Du Bois...
...photographed, celebrity-style, in his midnight blue Maserati by Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. His first book, Delirious New York, was rereleased and sold 28,000 copies (not bad for a theoretical treatise on the American city written in the '70s). "I would say he's the most comprehensive thinker in the profession today," says American deconstructivist Frank Gehry. "He's the hope for the cities...