Word: brightest
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Intellectual brilliance, of course, is hardly a requirement in politics: Nixon and Carter were among the most intelligent of modern Presidents, and Reagan the least. Dukakis demonstrated that a brainy campaign run by the best and brightest minds is capable of badly misreading the issues that matter to Americans...
Bradley is bright without appearing a "pointy-head." He is progressive without appearing "out of the mainstream." He adheres to liberal principles without being burdened by ideological baggage. And he is the Democrats' brightest hope to win the Presidency...
...brightest, his policy stands may not always be the most thought out or the best ones, but his connection with the average person on the street is powerful. In a time when so many choose not vote or even care about politics, a politician who can stir a crowd is nothing to be cynical about...
What is so alarming about the implications of the Anthropology 10 memo is that a faculty member might condone the hiring of graduate students whose knowledge of the subject in question suspect. This is, after all, Harvard, which has traditionally been able to attract the nation's brightest undergraduates, graduate students, and professors to its hallowed halls. It is beyond my ability to conceive that Harvard would have the least bit of trouble hiring stellar, much less competent, teaching fellows (the same might be said about minority and women faculty); it is a question of initiative and not of feasibility...
From early on Dick Goodwin was one of the best and the brightest. After attending Tufts University and graduating first in his class from Harvard Law School, he began what looked to be a promising career with a clerkship under Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Keeping on the intellectual fast track, Goodwin then worked as counsel for a House committee investigating fixed TV quiz shows. Goodwin's next move, becoming a speechwriter for the 1960 Kennedy presidential campaign, brought him into the equally scandalous world of politics and power. From 1961 to 1965, Goodwin served Presidents Kennedy and Johnson...