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...says Nicholas S. Fish ’80, who was Wiprud’s high school classmate and freshman roommate in Wigglesworth E-11. “I think everyone kind of assumed that Ted would be passionate about what he was doing, just a very smart and focused guy who followed his heart when everybody else thought he was going to follow his head and go into the sciences...
...comes to us very highly recommended by the faculty and she impressed all of us when she interviewed,” Dingman said. “She’ll be warm and smart, and I think students will find her accessible...
Kishore Mahbubani is that rarest of creatures, a card-carrying member of the sober, slightly stuffy international establishment who still occasionally manages to hurl provocative smart bombs into the debate on global affairs?an agent provocateur in gentleman's clothing. In the mid '90s, when the U.S. was aflutter with insecurity about how it was losing the global economic race to (believe it or not) Japan, he wrote an essay for Foreign Affairs on "Asian values." At the time it caused a furious discussion among American foreign-policy ?lites about whether there was any difference in "values" between East...
...have a grudge against Mao? No, I don't feel any need for revenge. We bent over backward to be fair to him. But we could find nothing nice to say. He was completely immoral, and yet also very smart. He could rise from seemingly impossible situations. We were constantly impressed. I wrote a couple of sentences reflecting how appalled I was by him, but we edited them out. We wanted readers to draw their own conclusions...
...restaurants had been stalled for two years, budging just 0.9% in 2003 and 2.9% last year, far below the pace set by its competitors. The culprit? A sudden burst of creativity from the big guns in the fast-food wars, McDonald's and Burger King, as well as some smart plays by smaller chains like Hardee's and KFC. For years, McDonald's and Burger King had relied on their size to generate growth, opening hundreds of new stores every year to pump up sales. Meanwhile, Wendy's had some very lucrative ground to itself. It is only one-fifth...