Word: giftedness
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Jay wasn't gifted with vast self-knowledge. He had become successful so very young--dropping out of the University of Southern California to become an intern at CAA while still a teenager, becoming a full agent by the time he was 21 and a millionaire by his mid-20s...
As kids enter high school, parents worry that mediocre grades may shut them out of top colleges, which may prevent them from getting fulfilling jobs that pay well. Those are legitimate fears, says Frances Schoonmaker, an associate professor at Teachers College in New York City, "but so far in this...
The Maid of Orleans has always been played as an innocent speaking truth to corrupt power. In this version of the story, Milla Jovovich goes a step further and plays her as God-addled--all heat, energy and passion, a teenager who doesn't begin to think calmly until it...
EB: The most difficult and time consuming part was becoming American--I'm not gifted with accents or dialects, and I had to spend a lot of time trying to lose my Scottish accent. I also worked for six weeks in a psychiatric hospital. To begin with it was scary...
Punch's son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. took over the paper in 1992 without much real management experience, but like each of his forebears, he grew into the job. He has continued the tradition of trusting in strong and intellectually gifted editors and, like his father, has had the strength...