Word: brightest
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...caught in a vicious cycle, in which the brightest and most ambitious enter fields that most solidify the social status quo--blazing a path to nowhere in which the next generation of equally smart and energetic Harvard graduates is bound to follow...
...Cornell picked up its second Ivy loss of the season against Harvard Saturday. Rookie coach Pete Mangurian's squad faces the daunting challenge of winning the remainder of its divisional schedule of it hopes to have a chance at a title. Senior quarterback Mike Hood has been the brightest spot for the team, earning Ivy League Player of the Week honors for the previous week against Buffalo...
...Anyone who has witnessed a young person on a ventilator because his or her ability to breathe has been suppressed by toxic quantities of alcohol would wonder how such a thing could happen to a Harvard student. But as the Scott Krueger death showed, even the brightest and most promising students coming to colleges like MIT and Harvard are not invulnerable, as immortal as they may feel in the excitement of being here...
...boyish aviator from Minnesota--shy, courteous, photogenic and self-contained--was instantly installed as the brightest god in what would become the new polytheism of global celebrity--now perhaps the world's dominant religion. But for Charles Lindbergh, the New York-to-Paris flight, the first solo transatlantic crossing by air, was only the first hop in a more complicated and sometimes less heroic journey...
...Schmidt says the predicament of America's average students illustrates the need for a set of "national standards that would articulate what all of our kids need to know." But the first step may be even simpler--as simple as challenging average kids as much as we do the brightest students. Just ask Meghan Malone, a high-achieving, freckle-faced Des Moines ninth-grader. "When you expect all kids to be smart," she says, walking out of her honors English class, "they will be." It may not be that easy, but it would be a start...