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Harvard has one of the brightest population of students in the world. These bright people's families are all paying approximately $30,000 a year (or as much of that figure as they can afford) in tuition, etc. Bright people being what they are, many notice when they do not get what they paid...
...imagine if someone walked in and watched a bunch of the so-called "Best and Brightest" screaming "SEX!" at the top of their lungs...
...then fall of which Bundy came to symbolize. The scion of a foreign policy establishment whose members unabashedly viewed America's leadership role (and their own) as a sacred destiny, Bundy became the epitome of the well-intentioned arrogance that David Halberstam grandly captured in The Best and the Brightest...
...generously. Cynthia, a factory worker, has another daughter, balky Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook), "with a face like a slapped arse," and a younger brother, Maurice (Timothy Spall), whom she raised but to whom she has not spoken in two years. "Cynthia's really very capable," notes Blethyn, "although not the brightest." So when Hortense shows up, it is a shock and an opportunity. Secrets will be revealed, and lies made truth, at Roxanne's 21st-birthday party, held by Maurice and his stressful wife Monica (Phyllis Logan). Catharsis is achieved a mite speedily, but the family has earned so much pity...
...attention on the internal functioning of the cell and the myriad chemical interactions that are the essence of the activities of all living things. The new field of study soon established itself as a distinct scientific specialty, known as molecular biology, and grew so rapidly that some of the brightest young minds in the Western world began flocking to its bustling labs and classrooms...