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...come I didn’t get in?’” Nesson recalls. “He said, ‘Well, you’ve got good board scores but lousy grades. That means you’re smart but, you’re lazy. We don’t want you. Go to Yale.’” Instead, Nesson improved his grades, and he was admitted the following year...
...staples of Washington rhetoric (just think of how often you hear about "tax relief"). Every American has a stake in the massive battle coming over health care reform, and voters would be wise to understand the weapons deployed to sway public opinion on both sides. However, how to craft smart reform and find common ground to get it done remain crucial questions, and on those Luntz's memo is silent...
...Ryan is one of the smart, young, telegenic policy wonks who have been hailed as the GOP's future, and his budget includes relatively few the-Lord-shall-provide accounting gimmicks by D.C. standards. He knows its potential cuts could sound nasty in a 30-second ad, but he wants Republicans to stop running away from limited-government principles. "We've got to stop being afraid of the politics," he says. "At this point, what have we got to lose...
...time of change for the industry, for all industries, every single industry is being affected by the web. Network television is already technically free, so when they have sites like Hulu that are figuring out a way to still have ad revenue, I think it's really smart. You can't fight it. You have to think outside the box and find a new way to deal with it. I'm not sure they have...
...magazine fans should not despair: a variety of competitors are also working on color-display technology that's as readable as E-Ink, among them Fujitsu's Flepia, which is already on sale in Japan, and Qualcomm's Mirasol technology, which is being used in smart phones...