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...Midwest may produce cars and steel,” Bacow, an economist, said. “Here in Boston, we produce brains and new ideas. We attract some of the best and brightest minds in the world...
...level of disillusionment Fullilove feels matches the enthusiasm she felt as an 18-year-old high school senior from Dayton, Ohio, visiting the Air Force Academy for the first time in the spring of 1999. Only the best and brightest, the top 20% of their high school class, have a chance at admission. Fullilove was that and more. She was a straight-A student, a cheerleader, a hurdle jumper and a swim-team member. A dance champion by age 5, she choreographed her own routines, sang and did comedy. She was determined to follow in the footsteps of her mother...
Young Daniel Ellsberg (James Spader) is one of the Rand Corp.'s best and brightest, writing papers for the think tank that advocate brinkmanship and "the political uses of madness" in the cold war. In 1964 his work takes him to the Pentagon, where he sees madness in action. He learns that the entire war policy, in effect, is a mess swept under a carpet of inflated enemy body counts. Asked to help write a history of the war effort, he finds that the U.S. has remained hopelessly entangled because no President wanted to be the first U.S. leader...
...established themselves in America. In the short run, at least, it seems that Harvard is a primary conduit for the 21st century’s version of the proverbial brain drain, or the relocation to the West of the developing world’s best and brightest...
...time to re-evaluate the manned space program. What should be a source of dreams and inspiration has become an unacceptably risky venture that claims the lives of our best, brightest and bravest. If manned space flight cannot be done right, it should not be done at all. The cost in human tragedy, national grief and billions of dollars is simply too high for marginally valuable science experiments. Let the debate begin, but in the meantime, let's not risk any more brave and gifted lives on an outdated venture. Our astronauts deserve better. BILL WHEELER Enfield, Conn...