Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post their opinions about books, to rate products, to swap anecdotes. As you sit there reading, say, a literate and charming book review from Bangladesh, the real power of the Amazon brand comes home. It is a site that is alive with uncounted species of insight, innovation and intellect. No one predicted that electronic shopping could possibly feel this alive. If it is a sign of an e-world yet to come, a place in which technology allows all of us to shop, communicate and live closer together, then Jeff Bezos has done more than construct an online mall...
Actually, it was one of Shaw's partners who interviewed Bezos first and urged the boss to meet him, saying, "He's going to make someone a lot of money someday." Shaw agreed, understanding that Bezos was unusual not only for his balanced intellect--he could handle complex logic as well as articulate his thinking--but also for the overall package: smart, creative, personable, precisely the kind of person they wanted. Over time, Bezos became a specialist in researching business opportunities in insurance, software and then the booming Internet...
...self-described literary genius. On campus, well-written analysis and my name and flow together like peanut butter and jelly. I am very smart, respected but, alack, it's lonely at the top. My intellect is unmatched, unrivaled. Where are my peers, my challengers...
...review articles, speeches, op-ed pieces and, oh yes, a book or two a year. (His latest: An Affair of State, a scathing account of President Bill Clinton's impeachment woes; and the less reader-friendly The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory.) "Dick is sort of a legendary intellect," says law-school colleague Randal Picker. "He is one of the great legal minds of the 20th century...
Servant was an extraordinary piece about an extraordinary man. A man born into seeming impossibility; not uncared for, but equally not understood. Here was a boy of charm and intellect. An enchanted creature that had no apparent place upon this earth. Where would he roam? His life has answered that question. He never wavered from his crusade. Listen he always did. Respect he always had. Love from his generous soul he always offered...