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Since antiquity, philosophers have argued that higher mental abilities -- in short, thinking and language -- are the great divide separating humans from other species. The lesser creatures, Rene Descartes contended in 1637, are little more than automatons, sleepwalking through life without a mote of self- awareness. The French thinker found it inconceivable that an animal might have the ability to "use words or signs, putting them together as we do." Charles Darwin delivered an unsettling blow to this doctrine a century ago when he asserted that humans were linked by common ancestry to the rest of the animal kingdom. Darwinism raised...
National Security Adviser Tony Lake, 53, is a Mount Holyoke College professor who once worked in the Nixon National Security Council under Henry Kissinger. A conceptual thinker, Lake is expected to emerge as the architect of Clinton's foreign policy. Clinton named Washington lawyer Sandy Berger, another former Carter State Department official, to be Lake's deputy...
...Robert Reich is an original thinker long dedicated to serving the publicinterest," said Kennedy School Dean AlbertCarnesale in a news release. "His colleagues andstudents...will miss him, but we have greatexpectations for his contributions to the nation...
...real smart kid," Sullivan said. "You can tell it on the court--in addition to in the classroom. He's a good thinker...
...merely an attractive new label for a bigger, more wasteful, more intrusive bureaucracy. Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prizewinning economist, predicts that the Reich-Clinton program "would destroy far more productive jobs than it would create, because it relies on more government spending and taxing." Jim Pinkerton, an iconoclastic Republican thinker who until recently worked in the Bush campaign and White House, says, "I agree with three-fourths of what Reich writes." But Pinkerton doubts that simply throwing more money at poorly run public schools will produce results, when neither Clinton nor Reich has embraced market-oriented reforms such as school...