Word: smartest
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...watch out, that grin he wears during them means that you'll actually have to pay attention soon—a breakout question is coming. Though these breakouts actually mean something in terms of your final grade, there's a way to ace these: Step 1: Find the smartest kid you can during the first few classes. Step 2: Make friends; alternatively, sit directly behind him or her. Step 3: “Confer and discuss” when a breakout question pops up. Unfortunately, these breakouts are unannounced, which makes class attendance not strictly optional, despite the fact that...
...good leader for creative people," says Maxine Martens, who runs Martens & Heads!, which numbers LVMH, the Gap and Escada among its clients. Martens also notes that while most CEOs are top dogs in the company structure, a fashion CEO "must be willing to be the second smartest person in the room, in order to listen better and figure out what creatives need. He or she must be able to correct without criticizing and disagree without being disagreeable because creative people are different from businesspeople; they work from their souls, not from their heads...
...reviews are actually positive. The idea is an extension of Judge's previous work mocking the dumbing down of society: perfectly average Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph are frozen until 2505 and awaken to a world so degraded by mass consumerism that they are now the smartest people in the world. Crops are dying because they're being irrigated with an electrolyte-filled sports drink that has "the taste plants crave." Costco takes up miles of space and has greeters emotionlessly repeat, "Welcome to Costco. I love you." The movie is packed with top-shelf versions of the dumb...
...nowhere. The central joke is that their behavior is perfectly sublimated and perfectly committed to the intricate desperations by which they hope to gain fame, riches or, in the case of a recently defrocked Proust scholar, an alternative to suicide. All in all I thought it was the smartest American movie of the summer, not least because it acknowledged the dark side of the national psyche without wallowing...
...high expectations. "We're trying to position Singapore as a second leg [after Zurich] to our operation," says Thomas Meier, head of the company's private-banking arm in Asia. Says Didier von Daeniken, head of private banking for Credit Suisse in Southeast Asia: "The [Singapore] government is the smartest on earth in terms of promoting the place as a center for private banking...