Word: smarts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...easy to talk specs and features, but the MacBook's strengths come to light while in use. Apple was smart to skip over development of a G5 notebook, and go right to the Intel Core Duo. It's not easy to watch the highest-definition QuickTime movie trailers on a G4 PowerBook, and on many Centrino-based Windows notebooks, it can look pretty choppy, too. But on the MacBook Pro, 1080p movie trailers are smooth running...
...This fall, Jeyifo, who was a visiting professor at Harvard from 1998 to 2000, will rejoin what he dubs a “community of many smart and progressive scholars” that will strive to “make the academy a part of the worldwide movement for a just and sustainable future for all of the world’s peoples...
Piasta initially comes off as your stereotypical college girl: smart but unwise, fun but prone to poor choices. However, beyond first impressions, it is clear that she carries herself as a woman. In a pressed button down shirt, she sits confidently with friends from Wellesley and Harvard. She talks of her family, her accomplishments, and her school with pride. She informs one of her male Harvard friends, whom she met through ROTC, that she has decided to try to run the Boston Marathon in three and a half hours instead of four. She talks about her days playing soccer...
Just as the faculty has used Larry’s attitude, his “that-guy-iness,” to justify retaliation, so think we in section. The faculty has to stop that guy from stealing the show—to prove they are equally smart. We, too, feel we must try to reclaim section from our own that-guy’s unspeakable evils. So someone steps up to lead the charge and becomes, well, that guy. Pretty soon, you have a good chunk of that guys, or that gals, all in constant search of the trump...
...this emotional Stockholm band finds a way to pull it off. Singer Adam Olenius has a gift for melodies and an earnestness that recalls the Cure's Robert Smith, but he's also got enough self-respect to know when he's on the verge of bathos and is smart enough to avoid it, as on the soaring Very Loud: "I wanna build buildings high for you/ But the costs, my God, the costs I can't afford...