Word: brightest
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...narrator of Zenzele, a woman who writes words of wisdom to her daughter, a Harvard student, explains, "[O]ur churches and governments pour money into [these students], who ultimately drain our resources. If our brightest minds go and never return, then it is no wonder that we have no engineers to run our machinery, no doctors to staff our hospitals, no professors to fill our universities, and no teachers to educate the generations to come...
What kid wouldn't like to be president? Like many on this campus, I saw the presidency as the ultimate credential when I was younger. Precocious youngsters develop the need for affirmation; someone telling them that they are somehow the best and brightest. And for the now-mature over-achievers that we all know and love as friends here, the presidency seemed to offer that. Besides being confirmed as among the top of their class, what little kid wouldn't want to plop his or her feet up on the desk of the Oval Office and smoke a nice wooden...
Harvard must imbue its students with a spirit of service. The world has innumerable problems and some of the best and brightest are watching from the sidelines. The time to serve...
...take-home lesson, Gray said, is that American not only needs to encourage the best and the brightest but also to create opportunities for the rest...
...next December 2, 1996. If it lands on Mars as planned on July 4, 1997, it would be the first time since two Viking missions landed there in 1976. "Mars has always had this romantic hold on us," says TIME aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin. "It's one of the brightest stars in the sky and has been the subject of speculation about life there for many years. We know, for instance, that there is enough moisture there to have ice deposits on its north and south poles and temperatures, though very cold, somewhat similar to those on earth...