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...kids are the best and the brightest Academy Homes has to offer...but most of them are severely behind," she said...
...think [hostility] is prevalent because the majority of [college] students who come aren't the brightest of students and [come because they] couldn't handle the Korean system," the sophomore said. "Also, they tend to be rich and wasteful, spending a lot of money...
...them were denied tenure; some of them wished to leave before undergoing what appeared, and still appears, to be a futile process. Neither the administration nor individual department Faculty have any incentive to change this situation. Every year, another thousand or so of the best and brightest first-years arrive here in September; another group of talented young Faculty arrive here to teach; and another round of fundraising solicits astonishing sums from nostalgic alumni. Let me make my standing here clear: these astonishing sums pay the way for many of us, and I am very much implicated in this University...
...Brightest Light The heavens were lighted last spring by the magnificent Comet Hale-Bopp, which whizzed within 120 million miles of Earth. Countless people turned out and craned up to see it--among them 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult who took the comet as a sign that it was time to take their lives. That they did, leaving a dark blot on a brilliant event...
...Japan Inc. model, which has been adopted to varying degrees across East Asia, relies on the body politic's accepting the dictates of a meritocracy chosen from society's best and brightest. When the technocrats decreed that the economy needed vast amounts of capital to invest in development, the citizens did not protest, even when cajoled into saving upwards of a fifth of their incomes. On this ocean of funds, the economic mandarins launched one industrial battleship after another, directing banks to back companies in industries that offered the most potential for growth. Profits be damned too--market share...