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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PiMac who wrote (12578)	5/19/1999 9:56:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 13994

PiMac, As you may have gathered, I am very good at abstraction. I also spell well, know my multiplication tables, can tell you what the capital of Mongolia is, and can describe several routes to my mother's apartment in Washington from my home in Annapolis. My observation is that intelligence is pretty much intelligence, and whatever distinctions there may be are mainly a matter of preference. I was never a "collector", for example. A couple of times relatives tried to get me interested in stamps or coins, but it never took. I like more theoretical pursuits better. However, some of this is merely a matter of learning. For example, I am good at map reading. Many people are not, because they did not learn all of the symbols thoroughly, and therefore the process is clumsy and arduous to them. Similarly, a great deal of mathematics is just learning the rules, and not fretting over the reason why, lest you fall behind. Figuring out the reason why is a bonus; if you don't learn the rules of various operations, you will not know math...I will stop now, and let you respond to this before going on...