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...addressed the crowd in her five languages, explaining that she has come to cherish her own “right to speak [her] mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called ‘opinionated’...but instead of being labeled opinionated, will be called smart or well-informed, just...
...He’s extremely smart,” Wilkins said. “I was talking to Larry Tribe the other day, for whom Obama was a research assistant. Tribe had a mathematical background in college, but when they worked together on a paper on the theoretical application of mathematics to law, Larry said he was blown away by Barack’s theoretical intelligence...
...summer here may have been much more tranquil if I didn’t know Arabic: I wouldn’t have heard my smart, university-educated cousins complaining about needing wasta to find jobs; I wouldn’t have noticed that the young elite of this society—the kids with the connections, money and education—do not talk about improving the living standard in the country. But in the end, I am of course grateful that I speak the language. It’s the only way I can prevent Beirut?...
...back home, a thoroughly spoiled English cocker spaniel, doesn’t play fetch (I like to think it’s because she’s too smart, and not because I was too lazy to train her) so this keeps me fascinated for about 45 minutes, after which the dog collapses, panting and exhausted, on the grass. I imagine trying to tell Booker, already displeased with my ignorance of fishing, that I had killed...
...dunked underwater. "Our sister has risen from the grave of old ways!" exclaims Les Schulz from the stage. But no sooner than a lone hallelujah is heard, Gloria is whisked backstage in a white dressing gown, to emerge through a side door a few minutes later wearing a smart gray suit. Tears spill down her cheeks. "I've prayed all week that the Lord would give me strength, and he has," she tells the congregation. "I feel like a new lady...