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...addition to covering late-breaking media stories, Collins notes that "one of the most exciting things about working in the culture section at TIME is that we have some of the smartest, most articulate critics around." Their words are in worthy hands...
...fans are likely to hold youthful sins against Moe. "I was not the smartest or the best student," he said of his marijuana-smoking days. "I was out having a good time, being a normal American kid." But when the ski team suspended him at 16, his father, a contractor, hauled him up to the Aleutian Islands for a summer of 16-hour workdays. "He shoveled gravel," recalled Tom Sr. "He crawled on all fours." Moe Jr. straightened out. Since then he has put in six grueling years on the World Cup circuit, racing from one mountain to another...
Lawrence Korb a Reagan-era Pentagon official: "One of the smartest people I've ever met, and one of the neatest too. He'll make the trains run on time...
When President Clinton picked three women in a row for Attorney General, he didn't pick the smartest and most experienced people available. Instead he picked people who shared his views, who were female, and who (he hoped) didn't have any skeletons in the closet. Clinton also nominated former classmates, friends, and fellow Rhodes Scholars. It wasn't "fair" to all the other possible candidates, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was bad for America...
...seek attention was never why Bob Michel went to Congress. For 38 years, he did his job, made laws, and was a living argument against term limits. He was not the smartest member of Congress. He was not a dazzling speaker. He was always uncomfortable with the demands of being a public figure in the multimedia age. But he served with honor in an institution increasingly populated by dishonorable men and women...