Word: brightest
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...N.R.A.'s brightest stars is its chief lobbyist, James Jay Baker, 36, a former assistant county prosecutor in Missouri, who is sometimes touted as the organization's next leader. Baker can talk like a true believer. "Gun control is a cop-out," he says, "an easy solution to a complex problem. And it doesn't work." But in Washington legislation is an art of compromise, and you cannot do much logrolling by digging in your heels. So Baker can also be more accommodating, recognizing the public's changing mood on gun owners' rights. "There are no absolute rights," he acknowledges...
...brightest star in the family firmament is Antonia. Her mother recalls that this precocious firstborn "always wrote, even before she could write -- poems, little stories. She could read before she had any idea of the meaning of the words. Frank and I called her the wonder child." Which is not to say she was candy-coated. Young Antonia was fiercely competitive, on the tennis courts with her brother Thomas and on the football team at a boys school that admitted a handful of girls on equal footing. The genesis, perhaps, of her view of woman-as-equal...
...cold war has been not only a multitrillion-dollar (and ruble) expense but also a grand obsession. It has distorted priorities, distracted attention and preoccupied many of the best and the brightest minds in government, academe and think tanks for nearly two generations. There is a long line of other issues awaiting their turn, and some have been waiting none too patiently...
...German Democratic Republic was losing its best, brightest, most promising citizens, precisely those people who socialist propaganda said were going to build a better future. They were, but not in the G.D.R. Arriving in the West, many of them explained that they had left the East not because their lives were uncomfortable, but because they were unfree...