Word: brightest
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...Brightest Light The heavens were lighted last spring by the magnificent Comet Hale-Bopp, which whizzed within 120 million miles of Earth. Countless people turned out and craned up to see it--among them 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult who took the comet as a sign that it was time to take their lives. That they did, leaving a dark blot on a brilliant event...
...Japan Inc. model, which has been adopted to varying degrees across East Asia, relies on the body politic's accepting the dictates of a meritocracy chosen from society's best and brightest. When the technocrats decreed that the economy needed vast amounts of capital to invest in development, the citizens did not protest, even when cajoled into saving upwards of a fifth of their incomes. On this ocean of funds, the economic mandarins launched one industrial battleship after another, directing banks to back companies in industries that offered the most potential for growth. Profits be damned too--market share...
...other side lie many of Harvard's brightest stars, so called 'area' specialists, many of whom feel that the increasing emphasis on rational choice has obscured the need to utilize a variety of other important modes of analysis...
...harbored deep frustrations over the limitations of public education. That attitude is shared by many of the teachers Reynolds recruited for what is now called the Dodge-Edison School. Most are what Reynolds refers to as "flagship educators"--the best of the old system and some of the brightest prospects emerging from graduate school. He lured them with a unique scheme: teachers in small clusters would be given 90 minutes a day of development time; $10,000 in "dream money" to spend on everything from books to software programs and from camping trips to birthday parties; plus access...
...never be able to take advantage of them. States will never have the money for tuition assistance for all the poor children who might want it. And private schools are selective, accepting only the kids who meet their standards, which rules out a lot of kids. If just the brightest or most affluent of the poor escape to private schools, the rest will be stranded in a public system even more starved for money than before. "We can't do something that leaves those with remedial needs behind," says the Rev. Lowell Marshall Shepard Jr., a Philadelphia pastor who opposes...