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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prognosis: A brilliant and image-conscious idea man, Darman will ride herd on budget cutting and spending priorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Inner Circle | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...nurturing, suddenly blossoms. Barry Smolin twinkles at the very thought of his "victory student." The Fairfax junior had a mother who was a junkie, a sister who was a prostitute and a father who had long ago abandoned the family. "I gave her a writing assignment, and she was brilliant," says Smolin. "She still had trouble, but she got into college and now she wants to be a writer." What keeps many teachers going is the conviction that somewhere out there, there are more victory students waiting to be discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Teaching Our Children? | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...said, 'Keep after this kid, he's brilliant,but he can also get through security holes,'" saidAndrew H. Sudduth '83-'85, a Harvard systemsadministrator and Olympic crew medalist. Accordingto Sudduth, the Bell expert added that Morris "isdeveloping a sense of ethics...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: 'Virus' Whiz Kid Morris Was Hacker, Prankster | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

BERNARD SHAW: THE SEARCH FOR LOVE by Michael Holroyd (Random House; $24.95). The first of a projected three-volume life takes its brilliant, cantankerous subject to age 42, through journalism -- and love affairs -- to playwriting and toward his towering reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...little indication that, as his early critics noted, Churchill was often "a genius without judgment," a man with "a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain." As Manchester aptly observes, Churchill and his archenemy Hitler were alike in more ways than either would have cared to admit: both were brilliant orators capable of inspiring millions; both possessed wills of almost superhuman intensity; and both were meddlesome war leaders who constantly second-guessed their generals and set back their causes as often as they advanced them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lightning In His Brain | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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