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...time in the service reinforced his instinctive sense of discipline. But it also reinforced that those smart enough to work the system could get special rewards. As a new recruit in London during World War II, he frequently took advantage of a policy that gave soldiers an extra day off if, instead of boozing it up at the pubs, they enjoyed a night of culture at the theater. Greenberg's tactic: buy a ticket, grab a playbill, walk in the front door--and right out the side door...
...nasty way of re-erupting as boomers confront the reality of caring for aging parents. "We have an unexpressed wish that our parents will someday acknowledge the injustices done us," notes University of Pittsburgh elder-law professor Larry Frolik. "Someday Mom will understand that I'm as smart as my rich older brother or will finally admit, 'Honey, your husband's really a swell...
...scariness out of him? Take him back to his roots. In The Historian, a humble academic and his child become caught up in a maze of mysterious documents that lead them to the original Dracula. Stuffed with rich, incense-laden cultural history and travelogue, The Historian is a smart, bibliophilic mystery in the same vein (sorry) as A.S. Byatt's Possession--but without all that poetry. --Lev Grossman
Gibney says he doesn't think Enron "set out to become fraudulent." At first it was just trying to cover up relatively modest failures. But watching Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, we realize we're not smart enough, attentive enough or sufficiently lacking in greed to penetrate the next great fraud when it rolls down--not if its masters truly believe in it and keep beaming. --By Richard Schickel
...just one anchor and it's a woman. As far as I know, Nick News [a children's program on Nickelodeon that Ellerbee has anchored for 14 years] may be the longest-running program on national television anchored solely by a woman. I'm lucky. I have a really smart audience. They don't care how old I am. Anyone over 20 looks old to them...