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...education is Labor's agenda, Rudd is the right salesman. His first TV commercial is a highlights reel for someone who could have starred in Australia's Brainiest Kid or It's Academic: from bush school to the Australian National University ? and beyond! Learning is at the "kitchen table" of middle Australian families, to quote the vanquished Beazley; the self-employed and middle-income parents who obsess about education and private-school fees and have lately voted for Howard will take a very close look at Rudd's education policies in the coming months. Of course, if Labor does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Won't Fool the Voters of the Revolution | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...military are huddling in the capital this week to figure out how to defeat the lethal "improvised explosive devices"-roadside bombs-that have become a grave threat deployed by the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told some of the military-industrial complex's brainiest thinkers on Monday that "we owe it to the troops" to harness new technologies to squelch the IED threat. Such remote-controlled weapons kill and wound more U.S. troops than any other inside Iraq, England said. Highlighting just how seriously the Pentagon takes the threat, last week England signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army at the Breaking Point? | 1/26/2006 | See Source »

...first Saturday in December, 2,500 of the most brilliant college students in North America take what may be the hardest math test in the world. How tough is it? Although there are only 12 questions, the test lasts six hours. And although these are the best and brainiest young minds our country has to offer, the median score on last year's test was 1 point. Out of a possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crunching the Numbers | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...public has an image of her as a dumb blonde. The books give insight into another side of her," Lytsman said. "She wasn't the brainiest, but she tried to improve herself and educate herself...

Author: By Lisa B. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Schlesinger Receives Marilyn Monroe Books | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...like a funny pitch. That's because it has the word clowns in it. But watching these three guys try to impress a casting director by head-butting a ham through a paper target, or a female audience member by singing, dancing and yelling "Look at me!" is the brainiest physical comedy in a long time. Their performance skills are Cirque du Soleil quality (one of them, Michael Dahlen, is a member of the surreal mime troupe the Blue Man Group), and even they hope to bring their slacker vaudeville to TV. When clowns are having meetings with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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