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...February 28 is significant: Four years ago on that date I came to the United States. I consider that to be one of the brightest days of my life. I always celebrate that day and sort of consider it my second birthday...
Dewing holds the exalted office of president of the Porcellian Club, a charming group of young, virile men who will one day take their preordained place among the nation's best and brightest. The book is a history of the club published in 1991 to celebrate the Porcellian's bicentennial...
High school debaters are supposed to be some of America's best and brightest. They came to compete at Harvard from top schools across the nation. But for every budding John Rawls at the tournament there were many more students who demonstrated a woeful lack of knowledge about U.S. history, politics and culture, as well as the English language...
...security forces are large and efficient. Despite spasms of discontent, like the riot last August that helped unleash the rafter exodus, there is nothing like a Tiananmen brewing. And unlike many similar leaders, he has surrounded himself not with cronies and coat holders but with the best and the brightest his country has to offer. He may be constrained by a terrible economy and his enduring faith in the failed ideology that produced it, but Fidel is not finished yet. The trick he is trying to master, however, is a neat trick indeed: modifying Cuba's communist system enough...
...memorial service for the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, who died of a stroke at 89 last week. "In the work he did, the words he spoke and the life he lived, Bill Fulbright stood against the 20th century's most destructive forces and fought to advance its brightest hopes," said Clinton...