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Klein called the President's rhetoric "bleak" and "simple," with even simpler ideas. Bush's ideas, however, have resulted in freeing millions from horrible oppression in less than a month. If this is simplistic, count me in. Bush knows his limits and so has selected the strongest and smartest Cabinet and best advisers in many a presidency. ROBERT STERN Lima, Ohio...
...Sometimes I thought that the smartest person at Harvard was living in my room,” recalls Lawless, “And it wasn’t me.” Still, she says that roommate, Caroline Kung ’00, was a major source of support during those difficult years. The two remain friends, though Kung now lives in Hong Kong...
...girl turned out to not only a boy but Oedipus the Hamster, and our smartest roommate turned out to have a 100 percent error rate in sexing hamsters. Oedipus went on to father 11 inbred brethren in our bathroom. Two of the adorable albino puffballs soon escaped when a friend decided to open up the whole cage; our adorable rays of light and cheer were now “somewhere in Leverett House...
...single problem. According to Ravi Vakil, co-author of a book on the competition from 1985-2000 and the Putnam coordinator at Stanford, the median score is usually zero or one. “Keeping in mind that the people taking the Putnam are self-selected from the smartest mathematical minds in the continent, this undoubtedly is the hardest test in the world,” Vakil writes in an e-mail. “Getting somewhere on even one problem is a real accomplishment...
...then there is the damage the candidates inflict upon themselves by fawning over the interest group sponsoring the event. The smartest thing I ever heard anyone say at one of these travesties was William Bennett's instruction to the audience at the Christian Coalition cattle show in 1995. Bennett told the faithful that "if these candidates don't tell you something that makes you feel uncomfortable or forces you to think, if they demand nothing from you, then you should give them nothing...