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Calling Kim “one of the brightest, most capable people I’ve ever met,” Niles said that he was a dream colleague whom she had tried to hire for years, both before and after his time at the Business School...
...Obama administration is snatching up the best and brightest of our Econ professors left and right, and the University's powers-that-be have whittled the department's faculty hires down to one, the loneliest number. Rumor has it that the position for an assistant professor has been offered to a male Economics hot shot who recently gave a talk on campus...
...smart they are, professors are still human. Groups of likeminded people fall victim to groupthink—sometimes with disastrous results. Indeed, when David Halberstam wrote his account of the Johnson administration’s bungling of Vietnam, he entitled it, “The Best and the Brightest...
...USPSA is a civilian counterpart to our military academies. But, instead of military officers, the academy will admit America’s best and brightest students and eventually produce an entire generation of effective and efficient leaders in local, state, and national government. Via a competitive admissions process akin to the military academies—where admissions rates can be lower than Harvard’s—students would earn a four-year scholarship to study liberal arts as well as a specific public service field. At its full capacity, the academy would serve approximately 5000 students a year...
...awakened East Coast rap from a protracted hibernation and established one of the genre’s most vital lyricists. Yet “Notorious,” the glossy new biopic of Biggie Smalls, paints Wallace’s transformation into a man in only the broadest, brightest strokes. For a movie trying to revive interest in one of rap’s most storied and complicated figures—a movie trying to give Biggie life after death—“Notorious” is rather lifeless. The toughest dilemma that biopics face is deciding where...