Word: brightest
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...tale of how a mission launched with the brightest of hopes and overwhelming support threatened to turn into a morass -- and may yet -- is a cautionary story with a number of obvious, but ever recurring, lessons: think through all the ramifications of what you are doing, set clear goals, make sure the forces assigned can attain those goals, and do not get distracted. By last week's disastrous battle, all these lessons had been taught the hard...
...confusion in Somalia. The chaos has been there a long time. And it is also a very old story when the most wholesome moral intentions (such as the American desire to feed starving Somali children) lead down a road into nightmares of entanglement and unintended consequences. The best, brightest American policy thinking went off a cliff in Vietnam, for example...
Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a Secret Service man who still agonizes over his failure to stop John F. Kennedy '40's assassination. We're given the impression that in the 60s Frank was the "best and the brightest" of the agents, but now he's a 90s man who shows his compassion by playing the piano in bars on his off nights. Frank is a very human hero, a man who gets exhausted while running alongside the President's limo and groans about having a cold...
Though the article was not met with unanimous approval by the Law School community, at least the first two of that "trinity" of charges are familiar buzzwords at the Harvard Law Review, home to the Law School's best and brightest...
...this is not a case of the advancing enemy. The campus furor over Inside Edge is just another example of Harvard taking itself too seriously. The "best and the brightest," as Perspective so arrogantly puts it, are susceptible to the same peer pressures as everyone else. Most kids who buy Inside Edge are probably just as insecure, and just as innocuous, as the kids who write it. A real-life Edge Man would be too drunk to read...