Word: thinkers
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...From every point of view--as an imaginative and penetrative thinker, an influential writer, and a gifted teacher--Mike Porter fits the role of University Professor perfectly," Rudenstine said. "He will now have the chance to bring his extraordinary energy and intelligence to bear on many subjects of inquiry across the entire University...
Williams Professor and Government chair Roderick L. MacFarquhar said he felt "great regret [at her sentiments] because she's a very great thinker...I'm very, very sorry that she's going...
...American heart has long since outgrown the old simplisms in which the parties tend to think, in which the lefties and righties of talk radio and television tend to bray and hoot. Clinton instinctively grasps the truth of the new American sympathies. One thinker who understands them well is Alan Wolfe, a sociologist who has done admirable research in the cross-grained, complex but essentially tolerant American attitudes toward gay rights, abortion and other signature issues...
...American heart has long since outgrown the old simplisms in which the parties tend to think, in which the lefties and righties of talk radio and television tend to bray and hoot. Bill Clinton instinctively grasps the truth of the new American sympathies. One thinker who understands them perfectly is Alan Wolfe, a sociologist who has done admirable research in the cross-grained, complex American attitudes toward gay rights, abortion and other signature issues of the millennium...
...unelected board of directors and is not accountable to the public in the same way that governmental bodies must be. The directors may be very qualified; they include former Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, and the board is led by Esther Dyson, a respected thinker on Internet issues. However, qualification is not the same as democratic choice. Although the corporation claims to exercise no governmental authority, given its position as a standards-setting organization in an area in which governments have abdicated control, the public interest demands that it become a representative and democratic body. ICANN has already been heavily...