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...Klein's essay vividly illustrated Einstein's famous saying that imagination is more important than knowledge. Rice's performance before the 9/11 commission showed her to be smart but ultimately not a big thinker. Even more appalling is Bush's claim that he would have done something if he had known exactly when and where al-Qaeda would strike. The statement makes plain the Administration's failure to appreciate that the mishandling of the threat from al-Qaeda was not a failure of intelligence but a failure of imagination. Michael H. Weiss Marina...
...DaVinci Code. Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase shatters gender and color barriers to become the first fictional African-American female Harvard professor-cum-sleuth...
...prospective disabled students from SDR director Louise H. Russell. The letter begins, “When you think about how thoroughly university admissions offices scrutinize applicants, it’s unrealabout what makes a good ‘fit’ for you: just because you’re smart enough to be admitted to a particular college doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a match made in heaven...” The letters goes on to warn disabled students that the structured help they received in high school will not be available at Harvard...
...throughout history, both in the United States and abroad, have been subject to repeated hyper-sexualized stereotypes and complete and total physical objectification,” she wrote. “And now we’re doing it to ourselves....I guess I was hoping we were all smart enough not to buy into that bullshit...
Finally, The Smart Choice should do no harm. Yes—despite everything else—this is still most important aspect of all. If a running mate has some dark secret in his past—a mistress, a felony, rehab—he will be a liability. Unless the choice is almost inhumanly scandal-free, nothing else matters. Senator Kerry, you could object to this rule, you could (rightly) argue that it drives many qualified, capable people out of public life. But ignore it at your peril...