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...years old.Tosteson held the deanship for 20 years from 1977 to 1997—a transformational period during which the Medical School overhauled its teaching methods, restructured its academic departments, and increased its endowment nearly ninefold.“He had all the necessary clarity and force of intellect, the capacity to lead and persuade, and the human qualities that inspire admiration,” said Neil L. Rudenstine, who was president of the University during the final years of Tosteson’s deanship. “I will personally miss him, and Harvard will certainly miss...
...office, before the headlines that dubbed him “The Most Powerful Man on Wall Street,” and before the news pieces that caricatured him as a crusading lawyer with a hidden agenda against influential moneymen, Spitzer was known for his quick wit, confidence, and intellect, say his friends and classmates...
...According to his friends, it’s not just Spitzer’s intellect but his “character” that makes him apt to play an enduring role in public service...
...none of this suggests that within a species - Homo sapiens, say - brain size tells you a lick about intellect. Across the centuries, eugenicists and practitioners of other junk sciences argued that cranial volume could reveal important things about the intelligence or other traits of one race compared with another. That was rubbish. The new carnivore studies, by contrast, offer a tantalizing window into the things that help an entire species evolve the way it does - or, more important, the things that...
...Appeals Court Judge Diane P. Wood - Sotomayor was the candidate with whom the President was least familiar. But Sotomayor aced an hour-long interview with the President last Thursday at the White House, an official there says. "She is in many ways the combination of the experience and strong intellect he's looking for, as well as the personal life experience to bring to the court something it has never had before...