Word: smarts
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...sold more than a billion books - so I could buy four and disappear for the weekend (homework was minimal back in the Dark Ages) and never run out. They were all essentially the same. Dark, mysterious, wealthy hero is too damaged to love deeply. Smart, passionate, innocent heroine finds herself in harm's way. Hero rescues; villains are vanquished; vows are exchanged. And a chaste kiss at the happily ever after. Repeat...
...smart man. He didn't become a billionaire by accident." - Mavericks forward Jerry Stackhouse, on Cuban's success in bringing the team to the NBA Finals for the first time in the franchise's 26-year history (Washington Post, June...
...measures, the NFL is the most popular sports league in the country. Packed stadiums, glowing television ratings, a cool $7 billion in revenues. So why, in a league with so many smart guys at the executive table, is the NFL so darn stupid about settling games that are tied at the end of regulation? Why, in other words, is football so asinine about overtime...
...schools. “We’ve worked hard with the REP program to promote social marketing and peer-to peer marketing,” Gogan said. “We’re trying to raise the recycling flag where we can and promote waste reduction and smart procurement.” REPs will also be volunteering at the Harvard Yale game. Six 30-yard dumpsters of trash were generated at the 2006 game and Gogan said he hopes to reduce that number this year by making recycling easier and more visible. “When you have...
...critical to economies, and to financial companies and markets in particular," Miller says. "And if getting together to discuss the situation and making cooperative statements promising to reverse the recent spiral of negativity with stability can help restore confidence, then the effort is probably worth it. But someone as smart as Sarkozy knows the effort to get an American President to submit a pillar of his economy to outside regulators just isn't going to happen...