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...worse, I feel fortunate that my problem was noticed early and I was taught to read at home before beginning school. Still, I am just as likely today to walk into a doorjamb as to make it through a doorway successfully. I am, however, an imaginative, practical problem solver as well as ambidextrous. My creativity far outweighs dyslexia's negatives. Let's hope the stigma is lifted for all of us who see the world a bit differently. PENNY TASSIN Linden, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 18, 2003 | 8/18/2003 | See Source »

...kind of feeds my life. It’s a dream to be able to produce, with Cameron and Paula Wagner, a picture like this. I’ve always pushed myself. And now I’ve got kids. I’m a problem solver, and I enjoy that. You learn how to solve problems by making a lot of mistakes and going through it. But I think it feeds my life. There’s nothing like working hard at the end of the day, and you’re lying in bed, and you think...

Author: By Richard Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cruising with Tom and Cam | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

When you ask Powell where he had put his foot down, he pauses a long time, then says, "Hmmm." He's most intent on preserving team harmony. He portrays himself as done with ambition: "I don't have any personal need to shine." He says he's a "problem solver," the practical man who knows how to make the system work with minimal friction, the one who carries out the vision, not the one who imagines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odd Man Out | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...hoping that delivering a more pliant Pyongyang to the negotiating table - as China appears to have done - will cement its ties with Seoul. Besides transferring responsibility for the North Korean basket-case economy to Seoul, it also raises China's prestige as a responsible and powerful regional problem-solver. Beijing wouldn't be at all sad to see the departure of all those U.S. troops from its doorstep, and it would look to the long-term reunification of two mortal-enemy Korean states as a model for its own relationship with Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Wins, Who Loses as the Koreas Start Kissing | 6/16/2000 | See Source »

Many of several hundred guests in attendance at the dinner were participating in PON's weekend-long symposium on dispute resolution and legal practice, called "The Lawyer as Problem Solver...

Author: By Daniel D. Springer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senator Mitchell Presented With Negotiaton Award | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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