Word: smarts
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...just a game of chance. It rewards knowledge and it makes kids look good. Part of the appeal of it for me - and I see it in fan mail - is all these letters from teachers saying, "You've made it cool to be smart again. Thank you." (See the top 10 T.V. Dads...
Nancy Talbot was the Doyenne of American mail-order fashion. Talbot, who died on Aug. 30 at 89 of complications from Alzheimer's disease, founded the eponymous clothing store and catalog business with her husband Rudolf in 1947. Together they created a style she described as "smart but not faddy, fashionable but not funky, chic and understated...
...many of the architectural features of the new stadium are groundbreaking in themselves. The best of them are smart adaptations, well deployed. In particular, the arches and glass walls call to mind the new Wembley Stadium in London, a Foster design that Jones liked enough to visit three times on idea-gathering travels he and his wife Gene made to stadiums, airports and even shopping malls. Over the past few years, Gene also headed a project that commissioned site-specific works for the stadium by artists like Franz Ackermann, Mel Bochner and Olafur Eliasson, museum-quality names whose work...
...forward, because I’ve always had midfield tendencies…being more central and not being as offensively motivated,” Keating reflects. “But I’ve always liked using stick skills and shooting the ball, so I think it was a smart transition to put me up there.”Although the idea came as a surprise to the junior, Keating kept an open mind and has reaped the benefits. After two moderately productive seasons at midfield, in which Keating notched 14 points over seven starts, the newly-minted forward...
...city isn’t competing for feature coverage in Vogue or a star-studded front row. “I think [Boston’s] coming into its own for a particular identity. It has less to do with all the pomp and circumstance and more with the smart aspect of fashion,” Calderin says. Yet he acknowledges that the local fashion week does not currently garner the attention that other cities receive in terms of media coverage, noting, “Obviously we would love to have national coverage, but the truth of the matter...