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...truth about the Texas Governor's brain is that he is much smarter, at least in terms of raw, innate aptitude, than he lets on. When his purloined college transcript from Yale was published in the New Yorker last week, the news only confirmed what we'd already expected and what Bush had once suggested--that he had been a mediocre, C-average student. The surprise was that Bush's SAT scores, while not topping the charts, were better than his grades. (Out of a possible top score of 800, Bush got 566 on the verbal part of the test...
Sources: The New York Times; Wall Street Journal; WHDH Boston; the New Yorker; International Red Cross & Red Crescent; Business Week...
...Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush, he seems to have no problems convincing the masses (however unintentionally) that he's no member of the intelligentsia. The New Yorker recently printed a transcript from Bush's years at Yale which revealed him to be a rather mediocre student. He had highs of 88 in philosophy and anthropology, a low of 69 in astronomy, with a GPA somewhere in the mid-C range...
...easy to fall a bit behind in world affairs. But then again, George W.'s already an alpha-male and last I heard he is still eligible to wear navy blue in public. But Americans wouldn't let him off the hook that easily. Last week The New Yorker printed his somewhat embarrassing Yale report card, which only added fuel to the fire of skepticism that George W. can confront the sticky politics that come along with the Oval Office. But if he can endure Americans mocking him and publicly doubting his intelligence, then maybe global affairs will...
...play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...