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There are some glimpses of the old Bridget: smart, funny, wholly lacking in decorum. In one of the most compelling indictments against private education ever set forth on screen, Bridget describes Darcy’s alma mater, Eton, as “one of those fascist institutions where they stick a poker up your arse which you’re not allowed to take out for the rest of your life.” She takes on the uptight lawyers at one of Darcy’s work functions, railing against their tiresome Tory belief systems but oblivious to their...
Contributors and generally smart guys Steven Pinker, Atul Gawande, Chet Raymo, Daniel C. Dennett and Mike O’Connor will read and discuss selections from the ever interesting The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004. Free tickets can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store. 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church...
...teacher, who exudes a boundless enthusiasm as she introduces a lesson on Rolle's theorem and the extreme-value theorem, which, she explains, are key underpinnings of calculus. Wasmuth tosses out problems for her students to solve and then roves the room, examining their work. "You're all very smart!" she exclaims. "You're all capable of coming up with these theorems on your...
Despite their minuscule brains, the Hobbit and her kin were evidently smart enough to use fire, make tools and hunt, challenging existing notions of the relationship of brain size to intelligence. The scientists found bones of Stegodon, Komodo dragons and an assortment of rodents and other animals in the Liang Bua sediments, some of them charred by what may have been cooking fires...
...competitors like Guidant and Boston Scientific came out with their own stents, customers were eager to abandon J&J (which has admitted being slow to innovate but denies that its pricing was at fault). Says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck business school and author of Why Smart Executives Fail: "They knew what was going on; their customers were telling them." Like so many other companies that end up stumbling, they just weren't listening. --With reporting by William Han and Sean Gregory/New York, Sally B. Donnelly/Washington and Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit