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* Cory Booker. Stanford graduate, Rhodes Scholar who attended Oxford, owner of a Doctorate from Yale Law School, mayor of Newark, NJ... and [http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/newark_mayor_cory_booker_taken.html guy who ran into a burning building to save people trapped inside].
* Varian Fry. Scholar, Journalist, Spy, Refugee Smuggler and Righteous Among the Nations.
* This is par for the course for Intelligence Officers. While James Bond pictures spies as spending their time seducing women and smashing cars the real British a fairly large number of historical spies, including field agents as well as analysts were best described as nerds. And all of them even if they look like [[James Bond]] or [[Covert Affairs|Annie Walker]] have to at least be smart enough to be nerds if they are to have a role beyond that of an expendable street informant or message carrier.
 
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