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...more enjoyably gleaned from a book or if a teaching fellow leads facile and useless discussion sections, why should intelligent students be forced to waste their precious time solely to prove themselves committed enough to merit a good grade? A Harvard education should be about challenging the brightest students of their generation to realize their intellectual potential. And that can only come about when professors cut down on the quantity of pointless class requirements in order to increase the quality of meaningful work produced...
...stick, an antitrust violation. Thomas and Joseph Gambino and two other defendants took the deal and avoided jail by pleading guilty, paying $12 million in fines and agreeing to stay out of the business. "It was imaginative and smart," says Cherkasky, who calls Spitzer one of the "best and brightest" lawyers he has worked with...
...this time last year, Boston University junior guard Matt Turner was the Terriers’ leading scorer (17.5 ppg), their most accurate marksman (56.3 percent from the field; 50 percent from beyond the arc), and by all accounts one of the brightest stars in the Amercia East...
Rein realized that the best and brightest in China were failing to get into Harvard when he helped some Chinese friends prepare their applications. In China, where university admissions depend solely on test scores, Rein found that students with perfect or near-perfect scores do not realize these represent only one component of an American school’s application. He told his friends that they needed to show leadership, motivation and a desire to “change the world...
...most interesting aspects of this year's Southern elections, and the most encouraging for the Democrats, is the emergence of fresh faces. Perhaps the brightest new light is Arkansas' William Clinton, a Yale Law School graduate and Rhodes scholar, who at 32 will be the nation's youngest Governor in 40 years. He worked on the McGovern and Carter campaigns and used his tenure as attorney general to fight for consumers. He is an anomaly for both Arkansas and 1978. He said he might ask for a state tax increase if food and drugs were exempted from the sales...