Word: brightest
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Each year, Harvard turns away countless qualified students who aspire to study within these Ivy walls. We’re supposed to be surrounded by the best and the brightest, yet it seems that we shirk any intention to cultivate the “intellectual curiosity” that gained us entrance into this institution. When a TF begins a section looking for student involvement, it’s our duty to both ourselves and our classmates to actively participate...
...four years ago, during a different sort of transition—the Bush administration had just been ushered into Washington—and the government was performing a talent search, looking for the most energetic and brightest minds. Erdmann had been highly recommended to Haass by his dissertation advisor (and old friend of Haass’), Warren Professor of American History Ernest...
...harbors the suspicion that Bush is just in it for the cheese. We set out to ask the nation’s best and brightest what planetary dairy we might find on the moon...
...Portrait of a Platoon" was a thought-provoking article about the U.S. Army in Iraq [Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. Members of the 1st Armored Division's Survey Platoon, nicknamed the Tomb Raiders, felt like my family after I read TIME's profiles of them. They are the best and brightest. Every American should be proud of them. The account of how TIME journalists Michael Weisskopf and James Nachtwey were injured after Weisskopf grabbed a grenade thrown into their humvee, saving the lives of several soldiers, gave sharp insight into what is really going on in Iraq. I understood what...
...dethrone him. There wasn't always a clear-cut moment of succession, but the public knew soon enough when one had occurred, never mind the rankings. So it was that McEnroe eventually succumbed to Ivan Lendl, who made way for Stefan Edberg. Later, Boris Becker and Jim Courier shone brightest before Pete Sampras reigned through much of the '90s. And now? Well, there's ... no one, really. There's an official No. 1, of course - the American Andy Roddick - but only the tennis nuts would know that for sure. Nearly everyone else would be tossing up between Roddick, the ageing...