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...sound thinker who analyzes things thoroughly. His judgments clearly show the process of reasoning, there are no jumps there," says Richard M. Coleman, a classmate of Scalia's both as an undergraduate at Georgetown University and at Harvard Law School...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: HLS Classmates, Profs Remember Scalia Fondly | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

Then a rustle of papers, and the man puts on a delicate pair of wire-rim glasses. He begins to talk, to speak in smooth, connected sentences. As if by conjurer's trick, the laborer is transformed into the scholar, a solitary thinker who shies away from the world of action, a man of introspection who rises early to wrestle with questions of motivation and desire and write about them in a thick loose-leaf notebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Make of Mario | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Cuomo's record as Governor and his depth as a thinker should be considerable assets in a race for the presidency. But it is neither his record nor his thinking that makes him so significant to many Democrats; it is his voice, his skill as a communicator, his ability to seize on symbolic issues. He has that most potent of political attributes, a personal magnetism that tugs at the public's attention. "I think at this stage Cuomo is the strongest of the contenders," says Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, a conservative Democrat who is a potential rival for the nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Make of Mario | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...learned to love machinery from her father Joseph, a printer and sometime inventor. A practical, progressive thinker, he dismissed his Jewish background; his wife Minnie Bourke was an equally forward-looking daughter of British immigrants. They taught Margaret the redemptive power of work and accomplishment and gave her the motto "You can." Joseph died during her freshman year in college, leaving her grief and a mixed legacy. She spent the rest of her life trying to match his vision of her possibilities--and the world's--in photographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortunate Life Margaret Bourke-White | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...platform was then turned over to the Cardinal. He confidently approached the audience and began his talk by relating a personal anecdote drawn from his halcyon days of the 1950s when he was a young Harvard student in medieval history. Back then the controversial religious thinker and founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Dorothy Day, spoke on campus to the apparent dismay of one of Law's professors who refused to open his mind to her ideas or to attend her lecture. Day was given a generally negative review by The Harvard Crimson which this professor cited to justify...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laying Down the Law | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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