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...digits. Richard M. Nixon's intelligence was recognized by California psychologists at an early age--Nixon was one of the "termites" in the famous "Terman Study"--but this didn't prevent the Golden State prodigy from undermining the Constitution and destroying the international monetary system. In addition, his bizarre scheme of wage and price controls resulted in an unprecedented series of peacetime shortages. It is difficult to fathom such apparent ignorance of market economics from a man whose IQ scores were above the 97th percentile. In fact, to find a president of comparable mental stature, one must...
...which a society can aspire. If Progress is Good, it follows that those who stand in the way of said Progress must be Bad, Wicked, and a dozen other capitalized synonyms for Absolute Evil. And while most of my fellow Harvardians would doubtless shy away from Alec Baldwin's scheme for the stoning of prominent conservatives, they sympathize with the spirit that animated his remarks, which was summed up admirably when one of my roommates suggested humorously that "Dick Cheney is Satan...
This defensive scheme forced Lehigh to throw the ball and put the burden on junior quarterback Brant Hall--a player more noted for his running ability than his passing--who was also nursing a sprained ankle and turf...
...good grades but below-average test scores. Then it scanned his two recommendations. "A rare gem," said one letter; the other called him a "mature humanitarian." Most compelling, though, was a tidbit missing from the rest of the application. The student had come up with a unique scheme for supporting world famine relief: he pledged his weekly allowance and persuaded his parents to give matching grants. Cornell readers were similarly impressed with a letter that touted an applicant's papers on Billie Holiday and Vietnam veterans...
...split hairs.) With U.S. sailors dead in a likely terrorist attack on a Navy ship in the Persian Gulf and Israel bombing Palestinian headquarters in retaliation for a Palestinian lynching of Israeli soldiers (and with Iraq threatening to suspend crude production in some wacky euro-support blackmail scheme and Venezuela mired in oil-labor troubles) there was only one commodity scarcer than confidence Thursday, and that was black gold...