Word: smarts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Emperor Louis-Napoléon was stumbling into the calamities of war and revolution. Eventually art would imitate life; all the old orders would come crashing down; and Manet, Monet and Cézanne would emerge from the wreckage. King's account of that all-important crack-up is full of smart pleasures...
...lymphoma; in New York City. As one of five siblings in a brainy, high-achieving family, she looked at pop culture and asked, "Where are the girls?" In plays like Uncommon Women and Others and the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Heidi Chronicles, she provided the answer with textured portraits of smart, sometimes self-doubting feminists struggling in the wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled her daughter's premature delivery and months...
...measures also include the creation of new Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grants for students majoring in “science, math, technology, engineering, or a foreign language determined to be critical to the national security of the United States,” according to the legislation...
...call to arms. No longer will I allow my idealistic image of Harvard to quash the truth that is burning inside me: most of you––you meaning those who are not me––are not very smart. In fact, you are embarrassingly unintelligent, and you sully the name of this would-be-great institution...
...Hamas, is that they will discover that if they do not start the process of negotiation - which means recognizing Israel in some form - the Israelis are going to make all the decisions and they will find they've painted themselves into a corner. Hamas leaders have been very smart politically so far; that's why they are where they are. The obligations of governing may force Hamas finally to come to grips with reality and abandon this dream that Israel is somehow going to be eliminated and disappear from the face of the earth...