Word: smartest
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...pennies keep turning up," Wolfowitz said in an interview with TIME this month, mocking his own lengthy resume. A trained mathematician who speaks four languages, Wolfowitz is at ease discussing anything from Civil War battles to how he performs Eskimo rolls in his kayak. "Paul is one of the smartest guys I've ever known," says I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff. Says a senior official who has worked with Wolfowitz in both Bush administrations: "He's had an intellectually coherent set of views he's pursued over a long time. On Iraq, on the Soviet Union--those...
...suits, while the celebrities will fight for the floral dress with flowing scarves coming off the back. Meanwhile, Emanuel Ungaro went with Belle Epoque elegance, but added a dash of pop fun with sequined lips, a la the Rolling Stones. Jean Paul Gaultier has firmly established himself as the smartest talent of his generation. His clothes inevitably exhibit the whimsy and ideas of a Dior show with the wearability of Chanel. This season the favorites were the shirts and suit jackets, which came strapped to the front of the models. Quirky? Sure. But for $10,000, is intelligent fashion...
...culture offer instruction in race relations? It did, in the 1972 All in the Family episode about Sammy Davis Jr.'s visit to the Bunkers. When Sammy kissed Archie, the cleansing shock of laughter was the smartest possible reparation for the impulse to turn racial anguish into kitsch. --By Richard Corliss
...bets Berman has placed, the smartest was to gamble on Indian gaming with his 1990 decision to join forces with a Minnesota tribe, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians, and build a casino on its reservation 70 miles north of Minneapolis. In return for managing the place, Berman and his partners got 40% of the profits for seven years, after which the tribe took over. Eager to duplicate the model, Berman backed three more Indian ventures: the Grand Casino Hinckley, also in Minnesota, and two casinos in Louisiana. In 1999 a predecessor company, Lakes Gaming Inc., which was publicly...
...everyone, even the smartest people in the world, cannot help talking about themselves. The media may be vultures who shove tape recorders at families of murder victims, but the families almost always want to talk. Derrida didn't want to make a movie or talk to TIME or tell people that he likes jazz or that he read at a concert, but he couldn't help it. Despite the fact that he can say whatever he wants in his chosen medium--really hard-to-read books that will be read forever--he still can't stop himself at any given...