Word: smarts
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...crisis is extremely complicated. Surely the best and the brightest can screw up, as they famously did in Vietnam. But four decades later (and after eight years of George W. Bush), maybe we can agree that on balance it would be a plus to have a President who is smart. Maybe even really, really smart...
Religulous Bill Maher's whirlwind of a documentary is deeply felt, rigorous, outraged and the good kind of smart-alecky...
...high school girl who usually flips straight to the Arts section of TIME, but I read Justin Fox's Q&A about the bailout, and I think it was really smart to boil it down that way [Oct. 13]. Even I understood most of it. Still, for me, the obese elephant in the room is the question of where all the money went in the first place! Sara Makaretz, YARMOUTH, MAINE...
...opportunity to make history in November. Mack, who reflected on his memories of being Obama’s classmate at HLS 20 years ago, spoke to Obama’s assets as a candidate. “We finally have the opportunity to elect a president who is very smart, who wants to know the truth,” he said. Mack contrasted Obama with the Republicans, who he said are “running an anti-intellectual campaign masquerading as a populist campaign.” Harvard College Republicans President Colin J. Motley ’10 said that...
...what type of temperament matters, especially in a time like this? The idea that anyone can grow up to be President is an American gospel, but that's about honoring equality not excellence. It's good to be smart, but that's no guarantee of success; Woodrow Wilson, the only President with a Ph.D., never won over a majority of voters. More important is the confidence that lets you welcome smart people around you - and hope they disagree. Hence Lincoln's famous "team of rivals," says biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin. "How can you do this?" people asked him when...