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...Corrections, says that prior to the high court's ruling, only one of that state's 187 condemned killers had raised the issue. But now he expects many more. "I heard someone say that if a death-row inmate does not raise the issue now, he should have his IQ checked...
Part of the high-IQ fun of Minority Report--Spielberg's sharpest, brawniest, most bustling entertainment since Raiders of the Lost Ark and the finest of the season's action epics--is its mix of future and retro. Lamar Burgess (Max von Sydow), who might be a more benign John Ashcroft, and his protege John Anderton (Tom Cruise) run a system that prevents murders by arresting people before they commit them. Yet the Precrime apparatus is so goofily anach-ronistic--three young mind readers floating in a tank and billiard balls rolling through plastic tubes--that your brilliant...
...biographer and an editor, whose 1966 study Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain won a Pulitzer Prize. They live in a tony neighborhood in Cambridge, Mass., a few blocks from Harvard, on so-called Professors' Row, which real estate agents refer to as the smart street because such high-IQ figures as John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Henry Louis Gates Jr. have called it home. It was a long leap from there back to Manhattan at mid-century...
...expensive art and personal digs on Fifth Avenue--as is allegedly the case with Dennis Kozlowski at Tyco, where the board is stacked with insiders--is an egregious breakdown. "It amazes me that you can take 10 or 12 intelligent people and put them in a boardroom, and their IQ drops by half," says shareholder activist Nell Minow...
Gould led arguments against scientific claims that IQ varies between races for genetic reasons. His 1982 book The Mismeasure of Man, which tried to debunk claims that IQ and race were linked, won the National Book Critics Circle Award...