Word: brightest
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Young Tim went to Regis, a Jesuit high school that admitted only the brightest kids. As he remembers it, "One night in June they called a meeting of all new boys and their parents. The principal got up and said, 'Note that I start at 8 o'clock, not one minute before or one minute after. At Regis we do things on time.' Well, my father said, loud enough to be heard ten rows in front and ten rows behind, 'Aw, s---!' I thought, that's it! I'm finished. They'll have my ass out of here...
...LIVING COLOR (Fox, Saturdays, 9 p.m. EDT). Keenen Ivory Wayans (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka) created and stars in this weekly satirical revue with a black spin. The impersonations (Arsenio Hall, Mike Tyson) are dead on, the laughs abundant. TV's brightest new spring comedy, by a mile...
Modern sociological investigations are at the forefront of our efforts to understand what is going on, and to suggest policy options in our attempts to do something about it. It is therefore nothing less than tragic that some of the nation's brightest students are being misled, at its foremost institution of learning, into thinking that they are engaged in studies with a view to understanding their social world, when all they are learning is an outmoded "Channel 2" sociology that has brought that version of the discipline to ruin and disgrace in its British homeland...
...Baku, an increasingly vocal minority of ethnic Russians are demanding more respect and a better deal for their maligned republic. If anyone has suffered from 72 years of Communist rule, they say, it has been the Russians. They witnessed the desecration of their national shrines, the extermination of their brightest talents, and the economic and ecological rape of their resource-rich homeland -- all in the interest of forging a Soviet Empire where everyone else lives at their expense...
Yesterday's announcement of the league's all-star team illustrated that the best and the brightest will still be playing in Ivy League gyms next year. Harvard's Ralph James was one of four juniors who were named to the All-Ivy First Team. Joining James as honorees were Princeton center Kit Mueller, who was named Ivy Player of the Year, Yale forward Dean Campbell, Penn center Hassan Duncombe and Dartmouth center Walter Palmer, the only senior on the squad...