Word: brilliant
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...incredible...The blessing was that her mind was always as sharp as a tack until the very end. She was telling jokes and making literary references,” Pollack-Johnson said. “It took long to figure out what the joke was, but she was as brilliant as ever.” Former student Lili P. Porten called her dissertation adviser a “truly beloved” woman who was able to adopt that rare fusion of brilliance and kindness. “I have dozens of e-mails from people since her death...
...What was your reaction when Virgin Mobile came to you and told you they wanted to make this festival free? I thought the idea was brilliant. This is the worst economic year for young people since they've been born. A lot of them are out of work, are struggling to get jobs, and quite a large number are quite literally on the street. I'm sure I gulped and then almost definitely said, "Screw it - let's do it." And it's such a feel-good thing for everybody, and I think we'll raise a lot of money...
...best,” adding with a chuckle sote voce, “but of course we are.” My preference is to think of the school as a metaphor for excellence. Some things at Harvard are not the best. I remember developing a seemingly brilliant chemistry equation and discussing it with a graduate teaching fellow. He liked it. Later, I found that there were two things wrong: The equation was incomplete, and the correct formula had been discovered a century previously...
...running each. Every group comes up with creative and often wickedly funny new ways to focus attention to their issue, drawing in supporters and hordes of journalists who don't want to miss a good story. It has proved wildly successful. "What you have is a small number of brilliant people taking up problems that may seem marginal compared to the broader socio-economic debates going on, but which it turns out a lot of people are very concerned with," explains Guy Groux, a specialist in French social and labor conflict for the National Center for Scientific Research...
...Even if we help the Afghans establish a brilliant government in Kabul, that threat will remain - and it's legitimate to ask whether pouring our resources into Afghan nation-building is the best way to confront al-Qaeda. Unless the new Karzai government quickly changes course, the only reasonable answer is no. The question then becomes, What's Plan B? And is anyone working on that...