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...catch that NBC special on the White House? The Obamas happen to have some of the world's smartest people working tirelessly on the dirty details of governance. Think those staffers working till midnight and grinding away the weekends spend a ton of blissful time with their spouses? Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is killing himself while his wife and kids are stuck back in Chicago. Now there's a guy I can relate to. (See pictures of Obama in France...
...same laboratory and as a member of the Harvard Premedical Society, “He was very humble, very diligent, and very quiet. But not quiet in the shy sense. He spoke softly, but he was well aware of himself. He was certainly one of the smartest students that I knew at Harvard.” —Staff Writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...
...much of the Eastern Hemisphere, including the Middle East, lauded the importance of “individual leaders” in a speech at the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre yesterday. After beginning his speech on a comedic note, Petraeus encouraged “what must be the smartest new members of our military” to make use of the leadership skills they had developed through their training. He also implored them to follow “five critical admonitions”: “lead by example,” “be humble...
...packs, herds or troops - never mind into cities and countries - need to be smart. How else to negotiate the complex rules and hierarchies of their cultures? It's not for nothing that sharks, among the dimmest of the large carnivores, are loners, or that humans - far and away the smartest - are so enthusiastically collectivist...
...Christchurch's smartest places to stay, the spectacular Otahuna Lodge, www.otahuna.co.nz, is almost a reason to visit in itself. The nation's largest private historic residence was reborn as a small luxury hotel after a multimillion dollar renovation in May 2007, and today houses a superb art collection courtesy of its new American owners, Hall Cannon and Miles Refo. After a five-course degustation menu by chef Jimmy McIntyre in the clubby Victorian-era dining room, you can warm yourself by the fire (the lodge contains 14 working fireplaces) before retiring to one of seven expansive suites fashioned by Auckland...