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...whirlwind tour of all the Square's hottest locales. The highlight? A raging party at the A.D. final club. Adorned in a "royal blue tight sweater, bootleg pants and, of course, boots," as The Crimson described her attire, Chelsea chatted away with some of this country's best and brightest elitist, womanizing snobs. Dad must have been so proud...
...rights advocate Sergei Kovalyov compares the development of democracy with a nuclear reaction: "We have to wait for a critical mass to accumulate of people with democratic principles." But several Russian intellectuals, mourning the decline of the literary life, argue that so many of the country's best and brightest were executed that the critical mass may not accumulate very soon...
...measly week like Hyakutake, but for more than a month. "I predict that this could be the most viewed comet in all of human history," says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "This will be one of the brightest objects in the sky. It'll be hard for the average person...
...glad. Recruiting is one of the strongest, most insidious forces in American culture, as powerful as the draft and, maybe, as tragic. Huge numbers of American's best and brightest shuffle off each year, not to public schools or government service, but to Wall Street, State Street, and law school for one reason and one reason alone: lack of anything else...
...city for piano and swimming lessons, Sunday school and Boy Scout meetings. In high school, we add varsity sports, theater and the newspaper. Naturally, we are good students, and we fill our evenings with trigonometry and Thoreau. And so we arrive at Harvard, factory for the best and brightest. Spurred on by ghosts of centuries past, we run faster, reach farther and climb higher...