Word: giftedness
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At an age when many writers are winding down, Philip Roth is enjoying a remarkable creative surge. The American author, now 71, has published six breathtaking novels in the past nine years; he won the U.S. National Book Award in 1995 and the Pulitzer in 1998. His latest, The Plot...
Poor Reese Witherspoon, who, if you’ve ever seen Election, you know is one of the more gifted actresses of our age, will be forever tied to the pink-clad sorority girl who finds herself (eyes wide and blinking) at Harvard Law School. Besides making a killing at...
DURHAM, N.H.—The Harvard men’s basketball team may have been gifted two consecutive free throw opportunities to put the game out of reach, but New Hampshire needed just one off-balance three-pointer to kill the Crimson’s hopes last night, in...
You've heard of killing with kindness? Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) believes in curing with contempt. He is a gifted diagnostician who is fascinated by disease. But patients he can do without. He insults them, talks down to them and forgets their names--when he speaks to them at...
In 1996 Obama ran for state senate and won. Impatient, he leaped again in 2000, this time challenging four-term U.S. Congressman Bobby Rush. A former Black Panther, Rush ridiculed Obama as a Harvard-educated carpetbagger. Obama got hammered, losing 2 to 1. This year Obama chose a better race...