Word: smarts
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...they focus on shares of big companies. That's because shares of small companies, whose price moves quickly with big trades, tend to quickly get too expensive. And since most funds have restrictions on the percentage of any one company they can own, with a small company even a smart pick has little impact...
...Iraqi city of Fallujah is still a threat despite last year's efforts to wipe out the insurgent forces there [Nov. 14], quoted a Marine officer as saying, "You've almost had insurgency Darwinism. All the stupid ones are dead." The surviving terrorists in Fallujah may be the smart ones in the short term, but their willingness to destroy their innocent countrymen will ensure their ultimate extinction. And that will be the fate of fanatical terrorists everywhere. Ray Gregory Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. I am impressed by Time's reporting on the war in Iraq. But I am disturbed...
Facebook.com creator Mark E. Zuckerberg advised introductory programming students to “surround themselves with smart people” in a guest lecture on web development he delivered at the College yesterday. The young entrepreneur—who was a member of the Class of 2006 until starting facebook.com in the spring of his sophomore year—spoke in a Computer Science 50 (CS50) “topic session” about the application of programming knowledge to real world endeavors. “I suggest you take the hardest courses that you can, because you learn...
...Harvard missed two empty-net goals as time wound down—one off the post and one an instant too late—but still won. “I don’t think we were clicking on all cylinders, but I think we played a very smart game,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. And after Yale—about which Donato said, “We weren’t happy with the effort, with the execution, with the intensity and the commitment”—the Harvard...
...skepticism Sennott noted, several audience members were keen to continue the discussion after the forum wrapped up. “We need to look at the Middle East differently through the prism of our own faith,” Sennott said. “Let’s get smart. Let’s start asking the questions that resonate with a lot of people...