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Gomes reflects on what it takes to fill the office. “You don’t have to be the brightest person in the world,” he says. You also shouldn’t be “paranoid or pathological.” One should, however, “trust the faculty and work with them; recognize talent and reward...
...techie bigwigs who were this crowd's brightest stars. Star Wars effects czar Richard Edlund received the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation and a standing ovation. Visual effects software developer Ray Feeney took home the coveted Gordon E. Sawyer Award, coveted because it is the only actual Oscar statuette given (the other awards are plaques, medals and certificates). Also honored were the creators of something called the Rosetta Process, which will ensure safekeeping of today's movies for some 1500 years. Joshua Pines, who won for another digital archiving technique, clearly understood both the positive and the negative ramifications...
Denizens of the Windy City aren 't the only ones waking up a bit disappointed this morning; some of Madison Avenue 's best and brightest minds in advertising might be feeling as if Peyton Manning and the Colts have gotten one by them as well. After spending $2.6 million for a precious 30 seconds of airtime, most companies fell flat in their effort to entertain, engage, and perhaps even entice the 90 million-plus Bowl viewers to buy their product. Researchers at UCLA 's Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center scanned the brains of 10 volunteers who viewed...
...itself of the Arab threat from Gaza by joining Britain and France in attacking Egypt. The U.N. forced Israel to pull back. But Israel learned a lesson: never again a withdrawal without something in return. In the early days of June 1967 came the moment of Israel's brightest triumph -- and the beginning of its present travail. Israeli armies swept over Gaza and the Sinai to the south, the entire West Bank of the Jordan, and the Golan Heights in the north. In triumphal rebuke of the 2,000-year-old stereotype of the passive ghetto Jew, history's endless...
...much Iraq's efforts to rebuild itself is compromised by the fact that there's an exodus of the best and brightest? Iraqis are leaving their country in the thousands...