Word: brightest
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...What I liked about [Harvard] was the sense of openness and the sense of possibilities," said DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. "It means a chance to be with the best and brightest from...across the world, to be with people from places I had never even dreamed of visiting...
...recapture the excitement I felt that afternoon in December of 1992. I can be proud to be among the best and brightest. I can not be ashamed to utilize the connections the Harvard name offers. As I approach my senior year, I can try not to dwell on what I don't like, and try to pay more attention to the good things...
...sulked through grade school, his parents suspected that he might be unhappy because he was so much brighter than his peers. In those years "he was a discipline problem," admits Robert Rippey, a retired math teacher at Evergreen Park High School who remembers Ted fondly as one of his brightest students. "He drove his teachers up the wall. So in high school we had to figure something out." What his parents and school officials arrived at was the accelerated curriculum that allowed him to skip his junior year of high school and shot him to Harvard...
...WORD KOHOUTEK, AND MOST astronomers wince. Back in 1973 there were predictions that the comet of that name might be the brightest of the century. It turned out to be a total dud. Halley's comet was just as heavily overhyped 12 years later; that time around, at least, history's most celebrated comet was dim and unimpressive...
...touch of comet fever. They have commandeered the world's most powerful telescopes, including the high-flying Hubble, to plumb the secrets of one of the most ancient objects orbiting the sun. Says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts: "It's the brightest one since 1976, and we're dropping everything to study...