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Cornel West emerges as a key black thinker...
Despite his talent for trading, Soros has always seen himself more as a thinker than as a money earner, and claims his foundation work "has brought me closer to realizing a real sense of satisfaction than making large amounts of money." His father's experience of losing a lucrative legal business during the war but living well nonetheless provides insight for Soros. "Part of what I learned was the futility of making money for money's sake," he says. "Wealth can be a dead weight...
...while the Texas Club grilled up grub for passers-by and Fat Day, the only mobile band at Harvard, trooped around campus for four hours. Agitprop also organized several "tableaux vivant" of masterworks on the steps of Widener, including Raphael's "The School of Athens" and Rodin's "The Thinker" and "The Kiss." Plans for next year include "Playing With Space," a campus wide competition for the most "creative dorm room space utilization" (the winning bedrooms, bathrooms and closets will be photographed and exhibited) and a project for student musicians to compose and perform scores for silent movies...
While his crusade for educational reform brought him into the national spotlight, Barrett first earned his reputation as a leader in 1989 after spearheading the successful effort to pass a gay and lesbian anti-discrimination law. Since then, he has cultivated a reputation as a Clinton-esque thinker with progressive leanings, backing causes and projects ranging from gun control to magnetic-levitation trains
...award- winning photographer James Balog had a special problem in shooting the pictures for this week's cover story on animal intelligence. He had to coax a fidgety seven-year-old chimpanzee named Sally to sit motionless in the pose of Auguste Rodin's classic bronze sculpture The Thinker. Why The Thinker? Because, explains Balog, "it makes such a strong, symbolic statement of consciousness, awareness and studied thought...