Word: smarts
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...this movie may be surprised; besides the romance, there's a trio of bad vamps who wreak havoc, and a fast-moving game of vampire baseball. "The teenage girls are the early adapters, but that doesn't mean the train will stop," says Hardwicke. "Besides, young guys are smart enough to go where there are a lot of hot young girls." After all, a love affair with a fictional vampire will have to end someday...
...need look no further than the catastrophe of 1960’s-era urban renewal projects to recognize the pitfalls of talking about cities in purely urban contexts. During that period, a number of smart people came up with a number of intelligent plans for scouring out city cores based on the best information available about the housing, business, and social needs of cities, as in Ed Logue’s plans for downtown New Haven. Despite the best intentions of these planners, though, the urban renewal era is widely considered a failure, and it did very little to stop...
...freshman Senator from Illinois and was invaluable in helping him learn the arcane folkways of the Capitol. Obama once told me, "My chief of staff in the Senate, Pete Rouse, Tom Daschle's old chief of staff, is as well connected and well known and as popular and as smart and savvy a person as there is on Capitol Hill...
...That lingering resentment should help guarantee Lieberman's cooperation. "It is the iron law of reciprocity. He will remember and help those who helped him at a critical time in the future," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. "It is politically smart. The President and the Democrats will need him in the future. It is part of building bipartisanship and political capital...
...acov was one of 11 brothers, the son of a milkman who fled Egypt. A second wave of gangsters appeared in the 1990s: Russian Jewish criminals who control the prostitution rackets, often smuggling Eastern European women into Israel across the Sinai desert, using Bedouin guides. "The Russians are smart - and very violent," says Amir. In a model of entrepreneurial cooperation, some Jewish and Arab gangs hook up to smuggle drugs, stolen cars and arms between the Palestinian territories and Israel...