Word: smartest
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When Summers unveiled HFAI last year, he made a striking point to illustrate why it was so crucial: the dumbest rich kids in the country were going to college at the same rate as the smartest poor kids. In other words, a student’s chances of attending college often had more to do with money than merit...
...words “economic documentary” and “sexy good time” are rarely used to describe the same movie, and despite a brief tribute to one executive’s stripper fetish, Alex Gibney’s “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” continues this trend...
...credit, “Enron” does humanize some of the marquee names involved in the scandal. But with the controversy already yesterday’s news, the filmmakers need to reach beyond recounting history to give a fresh perspective, which this film never manages. The smartest guys in the room will probably steer clear of this one unless they’re sincerely interested in Enron and want to see about 12 seconds of strobe-lit nipples...
Last week, the documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” was released in movie theaters. A detailed account of one of the biggest business scandals, the documentary has its share of entertaining villains, including Enron chairman Kenneth Lay, former CEO Jeffrey Skilling and CFO Andrew Fastow. Yet, what caught my attention was its sole hero—whistleblower Sherron Watkins—who wrote the memo heard around the world, warning Lay that the company’s accounting practices were looking very shady...
...many schools were shamelessly letting poor and minority kids fall behind. "Some of these schools haven't been performing for 15 to 20 years, but it was one of the best-kept secrets in most communities," says House Democrat George Miller of California, who helped write No Child. The smartest thing the law does is to require schools to separate out the scores of at-risk children instead of lumping all kids together for a sunnier average...