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Slavitt is a combination of pomposity and sardonicism, a man who is smart, talented, funny—and knows it. He was raised in the affluent suburbs of Westchester, N.Y., the son of a prominent Manhattan lawyer. In his teens he shipped off to Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., matriculating at Yale College...
...long time, conservative parents have been uneasy about sending their children—morally upstanding, as they were—to a college with any vestige of modern-day liberalism or secularism. Yet the parochial thinking of higher education has been: If a smart kid (or his parents) hopes to make a splash, he or she is unlikely to do so at a small liberal arts college—particularly if that institution is so unambiguous about its political leanings and its adopted dogma. The jury’s still out, of course, on PHC students’ viability...
...been patient and smart...
This might seem to be the whim of a rich kid in a man's body. But the smart money was wrong before in underestimating Jackson's imagination and ambition. It would be folly to do so again...
...research at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif., where her job is to keep her ears open. The universe fairly roars with electromagnetic noise, most of which flows in randomly. If any arrived in regular pulses, it would be a good bet that something smart was doing the sending...