Word: smarts
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...socially challenged men” against one another as they compete for a $250,000 prize, according to the show’s Web site. Although Grosslight was not ultimately selected to be a “geek” on the show, the self-described “smart, sassy intellectual looking for a new adventure” said his taste of Hollywood has given him a new perspective on his time at Harvard—and might help remedy his dormant dating life. ‘THAT MUCH OF A GEEK?’The 26-year...
Henry Wickham wasn't smart, he wasn't rich, and he definitely wasn't lucky. What he was, was determined. In 1866, when he was 20, he sailed for the Amazon in search of exotic feathers for his mother's hat business back in London. That was a failure, like everything else he tried, but he caught the Amazon bug, and 10 years later he pulled off the one spectacular success of his life. In defiance of malaria, anacondas, electric eels, freshwater stingrays, Confederate colonists, customs inspectors and Yanomamo tribesmen, he smuggled 70,000 priceless rubber-tree seeds...
...fault, so I owe you to be a really good President" and dropped the Urkel bit entirely. He says he's going to try the concept first on The Daily Show next week and then, depending on how it plays, platform it out nationally. And we devised a pretty smart argument that while Nader might be responsible for every drop of blood spilled in Iraq, he also helped end global warming. Nader came up with his own bit about how he must also be responsible for sunspots, which made me more than a little nervous about letting the man deliver...
...very smart and he asks his advisors very tough questions and drills down to the heart of policy trade-offs...
...What I often tell people is that Harvard professors are really smart, but we don’t know anything,” Winship says. “Harvard students have the same potential, too. We’re pretty good at thinking, but we know little about the world and the people we work with...