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...combat in the Congo in the early 1960s before requesting a transfer to Saigon, became one of America’s prominent voices on the topic of Vietnam through his books “The Making of the Quagmire” and “The Best and the Brightest,” which both described the American involvement in Vietnam and criticized American policy...
...moved to Vanity Fair, but left in 1971 in order to expand one of his pieces about America’s involvement in the Vietnam War into the seminal book “The Best and the Brightest.” The book quickly became a best-seller...
...climate of fear has settled over Iraq's universities at a time when the country needs them most. Iraq's higher education system is slowly being rebuilt, with the aim of training the country's best and brightest to reconstruct a society shattered by tyranny, sanctions and war. But violence has jeopardized those hopes. Academics have become a favored target for terrorist groups aiming to destabilize Iraq and for kidnapping gangs looking for soft targets. A recent nationwide U.N. study says 48 academics have been assassinated. Taher al-Bakaa, who was Iraq's Minister for Higher Education under former Prime...
That may be in part because they are beginning to see the consequences for those that lag. Scientists who depend on federal funding, traditionally some of the brightest minds, now find themselves at a disadvantage, and so many are looking elsewhere. G.O.P. Congressman Mark Kirk, a leading backer of the bill, says universities and research institutions in his Chicago-area district are complaining that some of their top talent is leaving for places that offer stem-cell-research programs. At the same time, the diffusion of this work across the nation also raises ethical questions, as each state gets...
...wait for is 3001, a comedy-fantasy by Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Office Space), due out in August. It stars Luke Wilson as a present-day dim bulb who is put to sleep for 1,000 years and wakes up to discover he is the brightest man in an incredibly--but plausibly--dumbed-down future. Could it be that, over a millennium, people saw too many remakes, too many sequels and prequels that weren't ever equals? The only unfunny thing about Judge's premise is that it might become true...