Word: smarts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Coen Brothers Burn It Up! Richard Corliss apparently does not have the same sense of humor my friends and I have [Sept. 22]. In the theater where I saw Burn After Reading, everyone laughed throughout. The Coen brothers are very smart about people who do stupid things. The scene in which the detective tries to speed away but has parked between two cars and cannot get out is right out of a Road Runner cartoon. Wile E. Coyote is alive and well! Judith Canaan, KALAMAZOO, MICH...
...Office of Career Services Career Forum. But that’s not to say that the rockin’ fair was full of doom and gloom. One company that seemed determined to keep the good times coming, despite the plunging economy, was Facebook. “Everyone is very smart, very passionate, and... we have Facebook prom!” University Recruiting Representative Marcia Velencia says. Think of it as prom, but with socially awkward computer programmers replacing socially awkward teenage boys. Another web attraction was Google—this most popular search engine is celebrating its ten-year birthday...
...there are a lot of people who are so much more talented that I could ever be and are doing this every day.” Many of these student funds are researched and managed part-time by undergraduates who don’t necessarily provide their own money. Smart Women Securities, a student group that seeks to educate women about how to manage money has a fund donated by alumni and sponsors. More than 150 associates complete extensive market research on three separate funds. Another group of 13 money managers meet weekly to make final decisions on the positions...
...only three games mattered. Let’s approach from a communitarian perspective (big-ups to my man Michael Sandel, I know you’re reading this column, and I just want to say, you’re so enlightened, and stuff, like, I mean, wow, smart, and you’re modeled after Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, or the other way around, well, either way, you know what I’m talking about, right??). Mikey, correct me if I’m wrong, but it works from the inside-out: my friends, my family, and then...
...relative inexperience with Laser Radios, Watson focused on minimizing mistakes during the regatta. “The goal was for me to be consistent and not have too many bad races,” she said. “[Another] goal was to make smart decisions.” This year’s Women’s Singlehanded National Championship, which will be held at Cornell from Oct. 24-25, will be Watson’s second. Last year, she finished third in New England and went on to place ninth in Nationals. Annie Haeger of Boston College...