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Quitman, texas (pop. 2,000), is not listed in tourism brochures as the hip music capital of the Lone Star State. But it's doing its part. The tiny town is the home base of Shea Seger, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter behind one of this year's smartest debuts, The May Street Project (RCA). "Growing up, I hated the smallness of the town," says Seger, who was born in Fort Worth but moved to Quitman when she was four years old. "Now I respect it for its simplicity." Seger has also lived in a number of other places...
...Tessina is the author of many books, most recently "The Ten Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make After Forty." She encourages readers to visit her web site, where they can send her questions...
...comes to this new style of political bravado. His combination of Wasp reticence and Texas canniness gives him an old-fashioned feel. If Clinton was often too clever by half, in Disraeli's famous phrase, Bush sometimes deliberately seems only half-clever. But who do we like more: the smartest kid in class who sits in the first row and answers every question, or the fellow who sits in the back row and surprises you when he gets the right answer? I'm sure George Bush never sat in the first row in any class he was ever...
...Bob’s approach to a difficult budget or financial crises was to recognize the extreme uncertainty and then bring the smartest people he could in each relevant area and then grill them until you had done everything possible to reduce the uncertainty, “ Sperling adds...
...partnered with Sugakico, a successful operator of a chain of ramen-noodle restaurants. Two years later, sales are five times as high at Japanese outlets as at those in the U.S. of comparable size and location, requiring crowd-control techniques the company picked up from Disneyland. "That was the smartest move," says Kaplan. Why cinnamon buns? "The chewy and glutinous texture of the dough is a little bit like Japanese sticky rice cakes," says Minako Fujiwara, creator of a Cinnabon fan website...