Word: smartest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Homans is probably one of the smartest defense attorneys in Boston," Gemma said. "I am not surprised...
YOUR THOUGHT-PROVOKING ARTICLE ON the EQ factor falls into the very pit it attempts to avoid. The question should not be "Why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest," but "Why the smartest kid will probably not end up the happiest." Success today is measured by money, something as quantifiable as IQ. Happiness is more like EQ: vague, but you know if you've got it. JULIEN OLIVIER Barrington, New Hampshire...
...JURY. The nearly instant decision after nine months of trial and what prosecutor Clark described as a "mountain of evidence" was the ultimate "embarrassment," in Kamisar's view. "The 12 smartest people who ever lived couldn't have sorted through the evidence and evaluated it in four hours," he declares. "I have to accept the verdict, but I don't have to respect the jury that rendered it because of their unseemly haste. They could at least have stayed in deliberations for nine hours--one hour for each of the million dollars it cost to prosecute the case...
...hardware of the brain and the software of the mind; the messy powers of the heart were left to the poets. But cognitive theory could simply not explain the questions we wonder about most: why some people just seem to have a gift for living well; why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest; why we like some people virtually on sight and distrust others; why some people remain buoyant in the face of troubles that would sink a less resilient soul. What qualities of the mind or spirit, in short, determine who succeeds...
...Mizrahi is the subject of Unzipped, one of the smartest and most entertaining documentaries to come along in years. Unzipped is everything that Robert Altman's fashion fizzle, Ready to Wear, should have been: funny, succinct and modestly instructive about a fairly recondite business...