Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were smart enough to know beforehand that domestic stocks are going to outperform all other areas, we would put all our money into that area, but no one's that smart," he said...
...figured that it would be sort of like a high school summer program, the kind of thing where I could go home after a few months and say that the people were "amazing." What made people "amazing," as far as I could discern, was that they were really, really smart...
What I didn't realize was that when half your classmates composed original symphonies at the age of seven, "smart" doesn't really matter that much anymore. Instead, what matters is being able to see past your own intelligence to other things that are far more important-and far more impressive. Sure, some would-be doctors did end up getting really into spores. But even for them, the "journey" that started a few Septembers ago really didn't have that much to do with Harvard at all. It was life, not "college," but real life-that wandering and bludgeoning beast...
Some other movie can tell what it's like to be gay without AIDS. In & Out, a smart, wonderfully played jape, is just...
...Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has circulated a petition asking Disney to withdraw the show and has taken an ad in Advertising Age threatening its sponsors. Says William Donohue, the league's president: "It feeds the same appetite that says that the good Catholics are the ones smart enough not to go along with what's going on in Rome." But other Catholics defend the show. In his glowing review in the Catholic magazine America, Jesuit TV columnist James Martin writes, "If you think that any of these story lines are beyond the pale, just recall...