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...predilection towards the Harvard-affiliated (note HLS student Nick Brown from season two and OCS counselor/cow’s blood aficionado Linda Spencer from season three). The stereotypical Ivy League type is a staple of any good reality show. If I could fake a little extra intellect and arrogance I was in like Flynn...
Moreover, Lasaga should receive the same treatment as other prisoners. His requests for reading material and scientific supplies should be considered according to the pre-existing rules of the prison where he is to be imprisoned. To make exceptions based on his admittedly keen intellect would be unfair to the other inmates. With any luck Lasaga will use his extended incarceration to think about the severe consequences of his crimes. He should reflect that the tragedy in this case is, of course, not that the American justice system has dashed his glittering geological career, but that a young...
...Skilling. It was Skilling who provided the strategic vision behind Enron, who transformed its old gas-pipeline culture into a swaggering, rule-breaking, dealmaking cult that ultimately mislaid its analytical skills and perhaps its moral compass. Skilling, a Harvard M.B.A. and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, had a high-wattage intellect that always impressed. Even when he was a student, people who met him knew he would do something...
...Skilling. It was Skilling who provided the strategic vision behind Enron, who transformed its old gas-pipeline culture into a swaggering, rule-breaking, dealmaking cult that ultimately mislaid its analytical skills and perhaps its moral compass. Skilling, a Harvard M.B.A. and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, had a high-wattage intellect that always impressed. Even when he was a student, people who met him knew he would do something...
Bearing the brunt of the nasty, possibly racist whispers was the 52-year-old Pakistani-born Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, the son of a Muslim convert to Christianity and a man praised for his intellect. The slurs alleged he had bought his first bishopric, lied about his age, misrepresented his academic qualifications and - horrors - was even once involved with the Catholic Church. None turned out to be true except the last charge. Nazir-Ali has admitted to being a practicing Catholic while at St. Paul's School and during a year at St. Patrick's College in Karachi...