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From the second she strolled into the Sanctum last fall, Rachel proved herself to be one of FM’s keenest minds. She comes to meetings with ideas galore, usually concerning subject-matter that is way over everyone else’s head but brilliant in its humanity...
...Pell finally tolled with barely three minutes remaining. The feisty 5’3 forward led a brilliant rush down the left side of the ice, sending a beautfiul centering pass to the incoming Crum. The 5’2 center poked the puck in before being tripped up and sliding headfirst into freshman B.C. goalie Lisa Davis...
Improbably, Kolarik was even more brilliant the next night, making perhaps the most spectacular play of his already stellar Harvard career on Saturday night...
...brilliant contribution to the new collection of essays How Did This Happen?, Anatol Lieven tells of Pakistani Islamic radicals in the 1980s. They lived in a "semi-Western, semi-modern culture." They faced the threat of "sinking into the immiserated, semi-employed proletariat--with the hira mandi, or prostitutes' quarter, as the possible destiny of their sisters and daughters." It is men like those who may soon be tempted to venerate bin Laden's memory. We must persuade them to withhold the accolade; we can start by listening to their stories...
...Fred and Ginger The world of technology has never been short of eccentrics and obsessives, of rich, brilliant oddballs with strange habits and stranger hobbies. But even in this crowd, Dean Kamen stands out. The 50-year-old son of a comic-book artist, he is a college dropout, a self-taught physicist and mechanical engineer with a handful of honorary doctorates, a multimillionaire who wears the same outfit for every occasion: blue jeans, a blue work shirt and a pair of Timberland boots. With the accent of his native Long Island, he speaks slowly, passionately--and endlessly...