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...next season of trashy catfights and semi-clandestine makeout sessions. FM breaks down the top choices for the job. 1. BJ Novak ’01: like Conan O’Brien ’85 before him, this Harvard alum and Newton, Mass. native proves that smart people are funny too. On screen, he charms the ladies as Ryan Howard on the American version of The Office. It’s a no brainer—this Harvard Man would have the ladies fighting over him in no time. 2. David A. “DA” Wallach...
...This past summer, some other Harvard student posted on Washington Craigslist to express his desire for a woman whose “brains match her beauty.” I responded: “Hey! I’m not very smart, but then again I’m pretty ugly, so I guess my brains matches my beauty. Actually maybe not, because my ugliness is so great.” To my chagrin, he wrote back...
...hear President George W. Bush tell the world's major economies that this global warming thing might actually be a problem and that we should maybe consider doing something about it eventually. Or you could catch the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in Manhattan, where billionaire executives, extremely smart people and star-struck journalists listened raptly as Brad Pitt detailed his plans to rebuild New Orleans in fabulously green fashion...
...Secure suspects a group based in Russia, but there's no way to be sure, and recent Storm Worm subject lines referring to Labor Day and the start of the football season suggest that those involved have an American connection. What is certain is that they are very smart--prodigious innovators engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with security firms that so far they're winning. "I don't think these guys have day jobs," says Hypponen. "They're really active and really closely watching us. I don't see them stopping anytime soon...
...become almost impossible to find a bookstore that limits itself to only selling books. A spokeswoman for the American Booksellers Association recently told The New York Times that the bookstores thriving today are those that become more diversified with “a really vibrant cafe, a smart selection of books, and really great non-book items.” My first job was in one such diversified bookstore that sold local music and hummus-laden bagels alongside Rushdie and Stephen King. Opened by two aging hippies, the bookstore was a patchouli-scented downtown institution with walls buried under rainbow...