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...cultural shift away from government employment has been even harder to change. While the private sector has boasted of its commitment to quality and efficiency, the public sector still has a reputation branded by that notorious phrase, "good enough for government work." So the Best and the Brightest believe there's no excitement or pulse in federal service. Even graduate schools that are supposed to train students for government can't convince them to work there. In 1961, Charles and Marie Robinson gave $35 million to Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to ensure its students...
...hard to get more white-fenced than Naperville. In the western Chicago suburb, crime is a nuisance, not a problem. The streets are clean and the schools are some of the most impressive in the state, churning out some of the brightest students who attend the nation's best colleges. But it's vicious at the top - so much so that Naperville's school officials recently voted to stop using a class ranking system...
...boys acquired over 566 years to the spirit of a less hierarchical, more competitive, more globalized Britain, and the effort is bearing fruit. If it plays its cards right - especially if it can open its doors not just to the very bright sons of the wealthy but to the brightest boys there are, anywhere - Eton has a decent shot at becoming the nursery for a 21st century (male) élite. And it won't be just a British élite, either...
...grid - why?) and, once in four weeks, Mel Taub's Puns and Anagrams - sort of a kindergarten cryptic. You never saw the features that made Games magazine such instructive fun, such as Flower Power or the Spiral, and rarely found those puzzles' authors, some of the brightest minds in puzzling...
...That fit of pique was another reminder that Jeb's notoriously thin skin is another large part of his legacy - and a potential problem in any presidential bid. Thom Rumberger, a GOP attorney and Jeb friend, calls him "the brightest Governor in this state's history. But to be President he'll need a little moderation and willingness to accept counsel once in a while instead of the my-way-or-the-highway approach he's prone...