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Equally strong, says Delong, would be his ability to plan for the University's future. Summers, he says, is a central thinker about the emerging New Economy and is deeply interested in the ramifications it will have for the world...
...career was that of a manager and organizer rather than a strategic visionary. For a man who rose so fast, Powell has remarkably few enemies - but his renown was earned as that of a no-nonsense facilitator who could make the trains run on time, rather than as a thinker or innovator. When the time came for war, he organized the winning team on Operation Desert Storm. But he hadn't exactly been gung ho about the need to fight in the first place. Powell had, in fact, expressed deep reservations about responding with military force to Saddam Hussein...
...puffed-up cock-of-the-walk strut. For people who think he's a little too full of himself, his walk is further evidence. Al Gore leans slightly forward and barrels along without looking sideways, which gives people the idea that he's not much of a lateral thinker. Bill Clinton has a galumphing, knock-kneed stride that explains why, as a 6' 2" 200 lb. high-school student in Little Rock, Arkansas, he was in the band rather than on the football team. The camera shot of him walking by himself - steely-jawed and deeply self-conscious - along...
BUSH: I wouldn't say that. I admire a good thinker--particularly if they're practical. And I like to read a good book. I'm a history buff. I just finished Stephen Ambrose's book on building the transcontinental railroad...
Tariq Ramadan has the measured delivery of an academic, which is no more than you would expect from a man who used to be a high school principal and wrote his doctoral thesis on Nietzsche. But as the leading Islamic thinker among Europe's second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants, the Geneva-based university lecturer also inspires a good deal of mistrust--from both Arab Muslims for his Western sensibility and Westerners for his controversial Islamic roots. Ramadan, 38, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder, in 1928, of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic revival movement that spread from...