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...year prove that 2005 was a devastating time for most of the world. My eye was caught by the picture of the London bus mangled by a bomb explosion. Ironically, the remains of a theater or movie advertisement on the side of the bus read, outright terror ... bold and brilliant. Emilio A. Schlabitz Culver City, California, U.S. As I looked at the photos over a cup of gourmet coffee, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel the walkway after a snowstorm or gripe when...
...journey of philosophizing and intellectual discussion with some of the greatest minds of this century, who would (after a few minutes of enlightening discourse) inform me that I was the brightest student they had ever met and that I would go on to one day do many great and brilliant things...
...walk around in groups…at Tulane it was kind of cliquish.”ACADEMIC ANTAGONISMSAlthough Tulane students say they found Harvard’s curriculum to be more approachable than its parties, Harvard students still managed to unsettle them in the classroom—not with brilliant comments, but with their competitive attitudes.“Academically I definitely feel that any Tulane student could stay here and hold their own,” says Joshua Miller, “but, for me personally, it’s way too serious….Tulane has a friendlier...
...does anyone really want to be brilliant all the time? Though heightened intelligence would seem to be a universally desirable goal, not all tasks and stages of life demand the amped-up cognitive speed and processing power the new regimens and medications may make possible. Becoming a parent, for example. I read somewhere once that many mothers and fathers suffer a rapid, appreciable drop in IQ after their babies are born. This, if true, is a huge gift from nature. Diapering, feeding and comforting little ones demands dumb endurance, in my experience, not penetrating cleverness. Thinking too clearly while cleaning...
...Nerdy quiz-show writer impulsively swipes a Chagall during a party at a museum. Why? The answer takes us back to the life of Marc Chagall, who taught art at a Soviet orphanage, and that of his roommate, a brilliant yet all but forgotten Yiddish writer known as Der Nister, "the Hidden One." Their stories form a deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present?and how we haunt the future...