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...necessarily anything as crude as raw IQ scores, though something closer to that than to the kind of mystical wisdom attributed to Ronald Reagan. Call it intellectual curiosity, perhaps, or a willingness to engage with complicated ideas. This financial crisis is extremely complicated. Surely the best and the brightest can screw up, as they famously did in Vietnam. But four decades later (and after eight years of George W. Bush), maybe we can agree that on balance it would be a plus to have a President who is smart. Maybe even really, really smart...
Irish emigration is nothing new, of course. From the millions who fled poverty and famine over the last century and a half to the many thousands who have regularly quit the country in search of work right up to the end of the 1980s, Ireland's best and brightest have a long history of leaving in search of opportunity and sunnier climates. But a decade and a half of red-hot growth all but wiped out large-scale emigration, and Ireland has instead found itself a destination for immigrants from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe...
...promoting a fiscal strategy that caused the economic crisis gripping the country. But the economist - whom the Nobel committee recognized for his "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity," which helps explain why certain countries excel in international trade - has long been considered one of the brightest lights of the dismal science. He will receive $1.4 million for the award, which will be given in Stockholm...
...plus-club as well. The Equity Project, which is located in the historically disadvantaged and largely Hispanic neighborhood of Washington Heights, seeks to fundamentally change the paradigm of American public education: By offering its teachers base salaries of $125,000, the school hopes to bring the best and brightest educators into its classrooms—a logical response to the large body of empirical research that suggests that teacher quality is one of the most important factors in students’ success. Whether or not this bold experiment in education will prove successful remains to be seen. But regardless...
...economy to fall into a state of crisis. “We are facing one of the worst financial crises during the past century.” Zuluaga said. “This economic crisis has rooted from the most advanced economy, from the motherland of some of the brightest economists we have, from the sector that was considered to be the safest in the world: America.” But Zuluaga said he thought that although the waves from the financial fiasco from the U.S. might affect the Colombian economy, the country will still enjoy...