Word: brilliantly
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...allow ourselves to be forever polite, we will never get into the habit of good thinking. We will get so used to accepting every inanity uttered near us that we will completely lose our critical faculties ... The word why is a wonderful dumb-conversation stopper." Your next brilliant brainchild may not survive Sindell's 11 steps to become viable, let alone profitable, but if his method truly does lead to fewer dumb conversations, let's hope it catches...
...Merging AOL with Time Warner in 2000 could have and should have been a brilliant move, not just for Case, who made zillions by converting high-flying Internet stock (and a bit of fuzzy accounting) into real money, but for the world's biggest media company too. By the turn of the century, it had become apparent that the value of content was plummeting as more and more media were digitized. Time Warner's video, music and print, and especially its cable company, could have and should have rallied around AOL as the solution. AOL and Time Warner Cable...
...brilliant and important economist who has contributed significantly over many decades to the understanding of the public sector,” said Economics Professor Edward L. Glaeser of Feldstein...
...torture, beheading and dismemberment of a prostitute, was almost universally reviled. In the critics' poll for Film Francais magazine, this grotty little melodrama from Brillante Mendoza, the forlorn hope of Filipino cinema, was given the lowest rating of any official selection. But somebody must think that Mendoza really is brilliant. "It's not a dating film," one jury member, playwright and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, acknowledged at the press conference. "It's not a film I would see again." But he and other members said they were proud to have honored...
...Harvard is full of brilliant minds and creative thinkers. While it would have been preferable for the administration to ask for student feedback before these announced changes, it is still worthwhile to solicit solutions or compromises that will keep students safe within budgetary restrictions. Despite the outcry on campus through private and public e-mails from students, parents, faculty, and alumni, as yet, a week after the announced cuts, we have received no sign that the administration is listening. MIT is leading a similar budget-cut initiative and is trying to incorporate community feedback, even streamlining the process of recognizing...