Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of one's partisan leanings, we at Harvard ought to take special note of Bush's argument for moral education: "Yes, we want our children to be smart and successful, but even more, we want them to be good and kind and decent. Yes, our children must learn how to make a living. But even more, they must learn how to live and what to love...
...rather cosmic proportions. This is, sadly enough, to be the show's last season; after seven years, they're finally going off the air. As a loyal fan, I'm both disappointed and relieved--I'll miss the weekly dosage of new episodes, but I'm glad they're smart enough to bail out before the number of paranormal plotlines thins too much...
...doubt whether he can cut it as an international statesman." And that's a fact that hasn't escaped Boris Yeltsin, who returned home early from a vacation Wednesday, raising expectations that he's about to make some kind of gesture to show he's in charge. The smart money isn't making any predictions...
...Tony Rodham's business dealings might benefit from some scrutiny, the same might be said about some of his business associates--like a Georgian wheeler-dealer named Vasili Patarkalishvili. He was the one who thought up the smart-card and hazelnut ventures. Patarkalishvili has had other brushes with controversy. In the early 1990s he opened Liberty Bank, ostensibly to operate in Georgia and the U.S. But in 1994 the Comptroller of the Currency issued a warning that the bank was not authorized to operate on American soil. The bank shut down in the U.S. Now Patarkalishvili and several partners...
Wallace had persuaded Mann to let him see an early version of the screenplay. Now he has called to ask for factual corrections and other changes in scenes that make him look vainglorious or blind to journalistic ethics. "His language is very acute," recalls Mann. "Stunningly funny and smart and ironic. He gave this long speech. I told him I'd have to use it in the film!" Which Mann did. It became an onscreen outburst that Wallace delivers sarcastically to Bergman, his once devoted younger colleague: "Oh, how fortunate I am to have Lowell Bergman's moral tutelage...