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...group of female American human-rights activists including Senator Hillary Clinton, invited Dmitruk to a function in Washington. As Dmitruk entered the hall, she bumped into former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who hugged her and said in Russian: "Natalya, I'm proud of you. You're a smart one." Dmitruk says that made her feel "warm and deeply moved," though she says she does not "feel like a hero at all." Dmitruk learned her signing skills from her deaf-mute parents, former industrial workers who are now retired. Though not deaf-mute herself, she sees...
...handed a life, and if you're lucky enough and smart enough, you become the person you want to be. My life is in direct response to the way that I was raised, which is true for everybody. Much of it is still connected to the boy who dreamed the impossible dreams. If you don't remember who you were, you don't know who you are. And I love the boy who dreamed the dreams. --As told to Barbara Isenberg
Along the way, the intrepid columnist brings up an economic study that found, get this, that smart schools with less intelligent athletes do better in sports than smart schools with smart athletes. And, despite the simplicity of the result, Kuhls still gets the analysis wrong. It’s not that smarter students are worse athletes than “dumb” students as he says, rather it’s that the recruiting pool for more intelligent prospects is much smaller than that of less intelligent athletes, making it harder to build a strong team with the former...
...film that dares to incorporate the association of airplanes and terrorism in a post 9/11 world—has some underlying agenda of social commentary? After an entire summer of allegory-laced big-budget action features with socio-political subtext, it’s refreshing to find a smart movie with no aspirations to social relevancy...
...being the street-smart guy that I am, I shrieked. Suddenly I was faced with a glowing image of a guy who was so excited about student checking that he looked like he’d been strung out on speed for at least a week...