Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Behind already-brilliant play and constantimprovement, Harvard may be well on its way to afourth consecutive Ivy League championship...
Seized upon as a David-vs.-Goliath tale by Britain's press, Potter's duel with Gates may well have a surprise ending. A South African-born physicist with a flair for brilliant chess moves, Potter last month finished stitching together an ingenious alliance with three of the world's telecommunications heavyweights: Sweden's Ericsson, Finland's Nokia and Motorola of the U.S. The three firms account for 70% of global sales of mobile telephones and have the kind of financial muscle to make even Bill Gates sit up and take notice...
...solar system has a glamour world, Jupiter--with its brilliant colors, vast size and fruit fly-like swarm of 16 moons--has always been it. The planet appeared more elegant still in 1979, when the Voyager space probes discovered that it is circled by a fine set of nested rings...
...Faculty Council will discuss how and at what pace we will make changes in graduate student aid," he says. "It affects undergraduates in so far as you'd much rather have brilliant and happy TFs than the other kind...
...during the making of Skin, Billy Corgan, leader of the alternative band Smashing Pumpkins and the man behind this year's half-brilliant album Adore, was invited by Love to give Hole musical pointers. Corgan and Love later had a falling out over credit, but Hole's ragged punk sound was altered, patched up, rewoven. The group's new sound has the sharp, clean lines of an Armani suit...