Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been scooped by the editors of Esquire magazine. A few months ago, they asked the most important question of the 1990s: Is it better to be hip than smart? And of course, it is far better to be hip than smart. What they should have asked was, why is it better to be hip than smart? The Esquire editors had Jerry Seinfeld on their cover, but really, Fifteen Minutes (FM), The Crimson's weekly magazine which chronicles the feats and foibles of students here, could just as easily have been on their mind...
...have made our answer to Esquire's question amply clear. We prefer to be hip than to be smart. We prefer to be cool than to be pious. We are beyond piety, and certainly we are close to being beyond the power of persuasion. Faith is a dream, knowledge a seventy-yard field goal. We are extraordinarily far from Athens or Jerusalem. Instead we have ensconced ourselves in the sugary bosom of a pop culture manufactured by sweaty-toothed media moguls in Los Angeles who cannot bear to be without their cellular telephones even when they go to the bathroom...
...remember thinking, `She's a really smart woman. She's asking these really great questions,'" Gwertzman says. "I noticed her because she looks exactly like a friend from high school...
...Michigan was a nice change from Harvard," Wilson says. "It's a big state school with smart kids. But you don't have the same East coast arrogance...
...have access to their medical records [OKLAHOMA CITY, May 15]. It is also important to hunt down criminals by identifying suspects, Both of these tasks could be carried out faster and more economically if Americans had identity cards, as residents do in some European countries. Some of these advanced "smart cards" with magnetic strips carry information about blood groups and instructions in emergencies. Only people with criminal intentions could object to these cards, which would bear a photo and be handed out to legal residents (a handy way to identify illegal immigratns). Such a measure could be tried...