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...Portrait of a Platoon" was a thought-provoking article about the U.S. Army in Iraq [Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. Members of the 1st Armored Division's Survey Platoon, nicknamed the Tomb Raiders, felt like my family after I read TIME's profiles of them. They are the best and brightest. Every American should be proud of them. The account of how TIME journalists Michael Weisskopf and James Nachtwey were injured after Weisskopf grabbed a grenade thrown into their humvee, saving the lives of several soldiers, gave sharp insight into what is really going on in Iraq. I understood what...
...dethrone him. There wasn't always a clear-cut moment of succession, but the public knew soon enough when one had occurred, never mind the rankings. So it was that McEnroe eventually succumbed to Ivan Lendl, who made way for Stefan Edberg. Later, Boris Becker and Jim Courier shone brightest before Pete Sampras reigned through much of the '90s. And now? Well, there's ... no one, really. There's an official No. 1, of course - the American Andy Roddick - but only the tennis nuts would know that for sure. Nearly everyone else would be tossing up between Roddick, the ageing...
...public schools, and the focus, particularly in the lower grades, is on periodic tests that determine each student's progress. The school is not designed for kids with mental disabilities or behavior problems, but it is not an elite academy that caters only to the best and the brightest. Places are doled out strictly by lottery. Last spring 213 youngsters applied for the 140 spots in last fall's entering seventh-grade class...
...natural amiability and charm ensures he will always be full of hot story tips. His enthusiasm for the magazine, along with his perseverance and curiosity as a reporter, will keep FM fresh and edgy and be invaluable as he trains the next year’s best and brightest as comp director...
...1920s at the urging of then Harvard President James Bryant Conant, Harvard began using the test in order to identify America’s brightest students who did not necessarily have the benefit of being a legacy or attending a prep school. It was developed by Princeton psychologist Carl Brigham, who based many of the questions on an intelligence test had developed for the U.S. army. The test’s now infamous acronym stood for Student Aptitude Test, and was intended to measure exactly that. Since the SAT’s inception, however, the College Board...