Word: giftedness
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Nep Phem is 18, and a gifted artist. His eyes tear, perhaps from a cold, and his answers are very thoughtful, introduced by long pauses. When you ask him what liberty requires, for example, he tells you "Patience." On one subject, however, his responses are rapid and automatic:
As the Sergeant of Police, John Sneath has a chance to display his sensationally rich baritone. Sneath is another gifted deadpan comic--at times, a shade too deadpan, perhaps. One wishes he would give his role just the smallest extra measure of hamming-up; as it is, he narrowly misses...
Cheating, of course, is common to many professions these days, even in past bastions of integrity like science, which has traditionally placed the search for truth above all other goals. But the Spector scandal has shaken this edifice in special ways. Besides wrecking the career of a gifted young researcher...
For Bloembergen, Tobin, Samuelson, and, in spirit, Hoffmann, the party was something of a homecoming. All had spent three years in that yellow house at the start of their academic careers as part of a remarkable and little-known Harvard research program for extraordinarily gifted young scholars--the Society of...
"There isn't anything flippant about our offense," says Walsh, although four non-quarterbacks have passed or threatened to pass this year. "We don't have a gifted all-around offense: our longest run is 23 yards on the last play of a half. We have to be...