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...easy last week to find good judges who rate Andrew Johns the smartest footballer they ever saw. But Johns, 32, who retired from rugby league on April 10 because of a neck injury that might have crippled him if he'd kept playing, could see himself very differently. "I'm the most immature bloke I know," he said when I knocked on his door one morning in 2000 and found him stretched out watching cartoons...
...politicians manage to make it to the White House without possessing the actor's chromosome. Such men may have abilities and score achievements. Yet they can find themselves in political hells caused, in part, by their emotional maladroitness. John Quincy Adams, historian, poet and translator, was one of the smartest Presidents ever, but he constantly knocked heads with a hostile Congress and then failed to be re-elected. Acting is a necessary tool, increasingly so in a democratic age when the audience is 300 million and candidates turn up regularly on TV talk shows. We, the voters and critics, must...
...probably always too much to believe that human beings would be responsible stewards of the planet. We may be the smartest of all the animals, endowed with exponentially greater powers of insight and abstraction, but we're animals all the same. That means that we can also be shortsighted and brutish, hungry for food, resources, land--and heedless of the mess we leave behind trying to get them...
...happens, feminist ideas were the force behind some of the smartest, most powerful art of the past century. You're reminded of that all through "Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution," a pinwheel of an exhibition that runs through July 16 at the Geffen Contemporary outpost of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. "Wack!" which was curated by Cornelia Butler, starts with a bang. It's called Abakan Red, a coarsely woven, more or less circular bolt of red cloth. Suspended from the ceiling almost to the floor, it was made in 1969 by the great Polish sculptor Magdalena...
...swimming pools, but they are jammed with new top-of-the-range SUVs. Excursions on offer include tours of the jungle on giant-engine trail bikes or tours of the coast in giant-engine speedboats. And money and hydrocarbons meet in delicious symphony at one of Port Gentil's smartest restaurants, San Lorenzo, whose $30 special is currently "fresh tuna in oil." The manager, Ludovic, a trim 25-year-old Frenchman who was born in Port Gentil and returned to open a restaurant after cleaning up as a model in Paris, is candid about the effect his home town...