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...months. (Thurman and Hawke also have a daughter Maya Ray, 5.) Tarantino, who likes to use nuclear hyperbole when mere exaggeration would do, says replacing Thurman with another actress was out of the question. "Would Sergio Leone have replaced Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars? Would von Sternberg have replaced Dietrich in Morocco?" he asks. "I knew how good she was going to be in this movie, so we waited...
Therein lies the fault with Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid, a collection of essays edited by Yale IBM Professor of Psychology and Education Robert J. Sternberg, concerning how and why ostensibly intelligent people can do incredibly stupid things. Former president Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and Richard Nixon’s claims of innocence during the Watergate scandal are two landmark instances in which two men, blessed with all the trappings of intelligence, were incapable of sound judgement...
...book’s contents, however, are not nearly as fun as its provocative title. The majority of the essays bear names with an Ivy League pedigree, and taken individually, are lucid and forthright. However, the collection lacks the sparkle of the overarching theme. Sternberg perhaps promises too much by trying to coax life from authors who suffer from a terminal excess of terminology. Though their explanations are educated, each essay that actually tackles the prescribed question proposes new working definitions to frame an answer...
Martire and Bajin edged Suzanne Wright and Akane Kokubo at the top spot, 9-7. Although Bergman and Lingman lost to Cornell’s Kate Sternberg and Laura Tallent, 8-6, a win by co-captain Fleur Broughton and senior Sarah McGinty at No. 3 doubles gave Harvard the doubles point and the early lead...
...potential profits--though far off--are just too large, and so is the risk of being left behind. It's a cliche, but it's nonetheless apt to note that in written Chinese, the same ideogram is used to express both danger and opportunity. As Sy Sternberg, chairman of New York Life Insurance, puts it, "If we got 1% of the Chinese population, we would double the number of policies we have." That has been the dream of global executives ever since the first glimmers of an opening by China in the 1970s...