Word: smarts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Leaders We Deserve Challenging times require leaders who are bright enough to think creatively [Oct. 27]. I completely agree with Michael Kinsley that America needs a smart President for the tough years ahead. But voters in many Western democracies, Ireland included, have a tendency to shy away from politicians who are far more intelligent than themselves. Adlai Stevenson was one of the best examples of this. As for any politician completely understanding the global financial mess, well, sadly Einstein is not on any ballot. Robert Liffey, DUBLIN...
...freshmen who want to be president. There were some in every class—fast-talking, glad-handing politicos who started campaigning for the Oval Office the minute they entered the Yard. Ignore them, my dad said. The people who will actually succeed in politics are smart enough to keep their ambition quiet. I tried to avoid the presidentials at first. But the longer I spent at Harvard, the more fascinating they became. Most Harvard students are pretty ambitious. But wanting to be president—and letting people know it—that seemed like a whole different level...
...kept hearing his name, prefaced, as if by Homeric epithet, by “that guy who wants to be president.” One night last spring, it even happened on the shuttle. “This kid in my tutorial, he’s really smart, he has like a 4.0, he wants to be president…” the guy next to me was saying. “Caleb Weatherl…he’s this sophomore,” the guy went on. “We’re friendly...
...sounded slightly apologetic for liking Europe so much. In Paris, he celebrated his job with Rove by trying escargot. It was different, he told me. “I’m a Texan, you know, I like to eat cow.” Caleb seems so smart and so careful about what he says that I wasn’t sure how to interpret all this down-home-boy stuff. It felt a little performative. I knew he was from Texas; he didn’t have to remind me every five minutes. When I asked Caleb why Karl...
...wish I was smart enough to know. It's scary. I don't know how you turn that around...