Word: thinker
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...sincere congratulations to the American people. I look forward to Obama guiding America back to its rightful place as a respected superpower. However, the fact that Obama is an African American is irrelevant. He was elected (I hope) because of his abilities - he is a clear thinker who will do what is required to resolve the ills that bedevil the U.S. To focus on his race demeans him and detracts from why he was elected. He is America's new leader and his race has nothing to do with it. I understand why Kenyans are rejoicing, but as Americans...
...McCain campaign and once served as a high-ranking official in the Reagan Justice Department announced Friday that he had voted for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, part of a growing trend of leading Republicans crossing party lines to endorse the Illinois senator. Charles Fried, a leading conservative thinker, cited McCain’s choice of running mate as the reason he cast his absentee ballot for Obama, who graduated from the Law School in 1991. Fried will also resign from his post on the McCain Campaign’s Justice Advisory Committee. “Professor Fried is concerned...
...mildly obsessive guy who might invent the intermittent windshield wiper. And then sue, claiming the Ford Motor Co. stole it from him. And insist on representing himself in court. This is an intelligent, if long, fact-based tale of the pitfalls and pinnacles that meet a genuinely independent thinker...
...Elite education has become anti-intellectual. The purpose of Yale College is to manufacture Yale alumni.” Deresiewicz left Yale earlier this year, according to Elsa S. Kim ’08-’09, who helped organize the event. Deresiewicz said that being a thinker is very different from being a leader. “I am telling you to be counter-cultural,” he said. “Forget about Harvard. Forget about all the other prestigious institutions you have gone through.” The discussion panel was organized by the Humanities...
...long-running battle between gay-rights activists and the Vatican has moved into the realm of the dead. With 19th century Anglican convert Cardinal John Henry Newman, arguably the greatest Catholic thinker from the English-speaking world, moving ever closer to sainthood, trouble is brewing over where his final resting place should be. The London-born historian and theologian died in 1890 and, following the instructions in his will, was buried beside his lifelong friend and fellow convert Ambrose St. John, who had died 15 years earlier. Newman's deep expressions of grief after St. John's death, along with...