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...Neil Rudenstine is the smartest guy around
This means that the book's action is comfortingly predictable. Sleazy Clive Jr., the conniving savings and loan president, will try to get his 80-year-old mother Miss Beryl to sign over her house to him, but since Miss Beryl's role is to be the Smartest Person in Town, she won't. the novel's hero, Sully, a 60-year-old handyman with a bad knee, will enact Good Guy Without a Grain of Sense. Sully's sidekick Rub plays Loyal Shortie with the Brain of a Beagle. The lawyer Wirf, representing Sully in a workmen's comp...
Just about every pet owner has a story like this and is eager to share it with anyone who will listen. On very short notice, TIME staffers came up with 25 anecdotes about what each is convinced is the smartest pet in the world. Among them: the cat who closes the door behind him when he goes into the bathroom; the cat who uses a toilet instead of a litter box -- and flushes it afterward; the dog who goes wild when he sees his owner putting on blue jeans instead of a dress because jeans mean it is time...
...many respects, the health-reform task force is going to test a central working assumption of the Clinton team: that the best way to solve any problem is to assemble the smartest people in a big room and pull a lot of all- nighters. The goal is nothing less than to find a way to provide universal access to health care while lowering costs for patients, companies and the government. Though the American Medical Association and other groups have complained of being cut out of the process, more than 400 task-force officials have held 237 meetings with outside interest...
...sweetbreads are also rich in mind-building and protein-developing fatty acids, as are Rocky Mountain oysters (a.k.a. bull testicles) -- "for enlightened connoisseurs," the author smoothly adds. But one puzzle Bourre leaves unsolved: If eating well equates with thinking well, how come chefs and restaurant critics aren't the smartest folks around...