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...those he would actually seek to overturn. Despite the instances where Bork has stepped back from earlier positions, and the ambiguity of some of his appeals court rulings, one thing is clear from his 25 years of unflinching and outspoken legal advocacy: he is not the mainstream legal thinker that the White House is now painting...
...died in the 17th century, British thinker Thomas Hobbes would have liked this movie so much that philosophy students today would be reading a book entitled "Robocop" instead of "Leviathan...
Turow does not release the reader from the challenge proferred. This challenge is not to solve a crime, but to recognize that all people can play multiple roles--victim, aggressor, lover, thinker--without paradox...
Perhaps the most important of Greenspan's early gurus was Ayn Rand, the best-selling author of novels like Atlas Shrugged. Though Rand is now generally viewed as a pop philosopher who was neither a rigorous nor original thinker, she was fresh and influential when Greenspan met her in 1952. The economist became taken with her theory of objectivism, which argues that society is best served by "rational selfishness," in which people act only to further their own private interests. Greenspan, who was a friend of Rand's until her death in 1982, credits the writer with teaching him that...
...chairman of the Federal Reserve Board inspired immediate interest among TIME's journalists. "It took only a short time to decide that Greenspan should be on the cover," says Economy & Business Senior Editor Charles Alexander. "He is one of the most analytical and perceptive economists around, a creative thinker brimming over with ideas. Once we'd chosen him, we immediately sent messages to both our domestic and foreign news bureaus asking that they start analyzing the move...