Word: smarts
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...also the only way to predict what they will need in the future. "Do you want to let diversity take its own course and potentially become a burden?" says Phillips. "Or do you want to manage it, be proactive, and turn it into a benefit? A smart society is going to try to turn it into a benefit. But that society has to know exactly what it's dealing with and, at the moment, we just don't know enough...
...much through pen, pencil and brush, as his new show of drawings at Sydney's Australian Galleries makes startlingly clear. Of his four trips to Baghdad, no event confounded Gittoes as much as the 2004 abduction of Irish-born CARE International worker Margaret Hassan. "She was a very smart woman, but she was also a lady in the old-fashioned sense," he recalls. "So that you'd arrive and she'd have a cup of tea for you in a beautiful porcelain cup." There is nothing beautiful about his portrayal of Hassan's hooded fate, Executed, 2004, with its horrific...
...bureaucratize extracurricular life at Harvard.” Indeed, such a top-down-mandated program is inherently paternalistic. Far from forging valuable links within and without the classroom, this proposal would only get in the way. If there are in fact links to be forged, Harvard students are smart enough to forge them on their own without the “help” of papers or assignments. And if the student in question was drawn to an extracurricular expressly to escape academics, so much the worse. In fact, the only thing that such a policy would accomplish would...
...laude graduate of Harvard, longtime cast member-writer on Saturday Night Live and co-author of the alcohol-horror movie When a Man Loves a Woman thinks he's good enough and smart enough - and doggone it, enough people like him - to be the next U.S. Senator from Minnesota. On his final Al Franken Show, he announced that he is running to reclaim the seat that Sen. Paul Wellstone lost when he, his wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash two weeks before the 2002 election, and which was won by Republican Norm Coleman. The New York City...
...describing work like that of winner Florian Kainz, for the design of OpenEXR, a system, the Sherrybaby star said, "engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images." There's a reason the Academy recruits smart actresses for this event - you wouldn't entrust Jessica Simpson with words like "lossy...