Word: thinker
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...main argument against the tests in the U.S. is that there is no necessary link between such exercises and better education. "You cannot test intellectual habits," argues Theodore Sizer, an educational-reform thinker based in Providence who heads the Coalition of Essential Schools. He feels it would be better to leave matters where they stand...
...very much an independent thinker," says Lawrence B. Lindsey, a special assistant to President Bush who did his graduate work with Feldstein at Harvard. "Even when you disagree with him, you know that he has good reasons for thinking the way he does...
...circuits of the historical imagination have been overloaded anyway. The end of the cold war, the "peace dividend," even the "end of history," as announced by one thinker -- all these came tumbling by chaotically, and then immediately darker themes set in: recession and the apocalyptic clouds in the gulf...
...this is a contradiction. Liberal acquaintances--especially at Harvard--who know my political leanings cannot fathom why I associate myself with the church of Peninsula, John Cardinal O'Connor, fanatical anti-abortionists, the Index of Banned Books and the Spanish Inquisition. They question my credentials as a liberal free thinker and, quite often, as an intelligent person...
Politically, the Catholic Church is truly catholic. The existence of Catholics like Archbishop Bernard Law does not make me a conservative any more than the existence of Catholic "liberation theology" makes me a revolutionary. One can be a Catholic and remain a free thinker...