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...just makes me sick that we’re the richest college in the world, and the smartest people in the world, and nobody seems to give a damn about anything...
...nearly impossible to enter University Hall without a passport. The scent of revolution is in the air. Pilbeam, at least, is a graduate of Cambridge University; a Bryn Mawr alumna like Faust must be doubly careful to stay in our good books. We are, after all, the 6,500 smartest citizen-scholars on earth.In the event that Faust does not bow out gracefully this afternoon, she would do well to heed our stern command, articulated best in Ragalie’s Monday missive: “The slightest whiff of incompetence, the first blossom of injustice drives us back...
There is nothing like a bad investment to make even the smartest person feel dumb. According to Zweig, a senior writer at Money magazine, it isn't entirely your fault. The appetite for money is a hardwired instinct that bullies our rational thoughts. Humans crave money so intensely, he writes, that the brain scans of a cocaine addict and someone about to receive cash look an awful lot alike. The good news: with self-awareness and a basic understanding of the brain's mechanics, we can dupe the greatest financial foe of all--ourselves. --By Carolyn Sayre...
That this is an intriguing philosophical puzzle was evident from the opinions--six of them--totaling 48 pages. In places, they read like the midnight bull session of the world's smartest law students. But when Roberts warned that the decision would effectively seal battered women in their homes with the police locked outside, he sent Breyer and Justice David Souter to their keyboards to write yet more pages establishing the long settled fact that police are allowed to enter a home to stop domestic violence, with or without consent...
...smartest thing would be for the majors to collaborate on creation of the ultimate digital-distribution hub, a place where every band can sell its wares at a price point of its choosing. Apple's iTunes, despite its current dominance, is vulnerable. Consumers dislike its incompatibility with other music services, and the labels are rebelling against its insistence on controlling prices. (Universal Music, the largest label in the world, has declined to sign a long-term deal with iTunes.) "There's real urgency for the labels to get together and figure this out," says Rick Rubin, the Grammy-winning producer...