Word: smarts
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...attracts writers to the pregnancy plot), this is prime-time sitcom fodder. Oscar and Felix; Kate and Angie. I?m not making claims that Baby Mama transcends the format?s routine progressions - opposites not only attract, they learn from each other - only that, within these conventions, the movie is smart, funny and beguiling. Hitting familiar buttons isn?t a sin if the exercise is carried off expertly, as it is here. And the two stars, deprived of the opportunity for girlish giggling they took undue advantage of as SNL?s Weekend Update anchors, relax into their characters, give them...
...Angie, she could be a Conshohocken crumpet, the idiot spawn of two siblings, the ramshackle hovel in which Kate?s baby is imprisoned. Instead, she?s spirited, resourceful and crafty of mouth, always ready to parry an accusation with some counterfeit common sense. She?s also smart enough to overcome the garbage education daytime TV has saddled her with. The meeting of disparate souls brings with it the inevitable apology swap. Kate: ?I?m sorry I called you stupid.? Angie: ?I?m sorry I farted into your purse...
...several institutes that have opened shop in this high-tech hub to teach India's legions of ambitious IT graduates the finer points of life in the modern workplace. "I was overwhelmed when I moved to Bangalore last year. I saw all these people who looked so smart and spoke perfect English," says Pallavi Deshpande, 28. Her college in the central Indian city of Nagpur had given her a master's degree in computer science, "but I didn't have much self-confidence, and my English was a big problem." Four months and a Certificate Program in Executive Excellence later...
...went to Brigham Young University, where she met her husband, an accountant named Christian who goes by "Pancho." They got married at 21 and have three sons. They still live just outside Phoenix in a town called Cave Creek, in a large modern house guarded by towering saguaro cacti. Smart, funny and cheery, Meyer does not seem noticeably undead in person. An observant Mormon, she doesn't drink alcohol and has never seen an R-rated movie. She's not perfect--although Mormons avoid caffeine on principle, she drinks the occasional cherry Diet Pepsi. "It's about keeping yourself free...
...light of Bill Buckley's passing, who are the remaining intellectual giants in modern American conservatism? -Orlando Gutierrez, BostonThere are a lot of very, very smart conservative intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Michael Novak [and] George Weigal. There are a lot of very thoughtful advocates of what I would call a serious conservatism, by which I mean the preservation of the traditions of freedom and the understanding of the realities within which you have to make decisions...