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...Sciences meeting on Tuesday—is the same old story told and retold in The New York Times since Summers took over the Treasury. He’s gruff, sartorially sloppy, colleagues consider him aggressive, even arrogant. Also, he’s brilliant—one of the sharpest minds in President Clinton’s cabinet. He’s a potential Nobel laureate in economics. And he loves to argue. One gets the impression that he really is on a search for veritas. If he could just keep the back of his shirt tucked...
RHIC, which generates high-energy subatomic collisions between gold ions, quietly opened for business in 2000. Even RHIC’s sharpest opponents calculate the risk of a world-ending “strangelet scenario” to be very, very small. According to Posner, an upper-bound estimate of the danger of a strangelet disaster is 1 in 500,000 over the 10-year period for which RHIC will be in operation. An alternative estimate from Swiss and Israeli scientists puts the danger at 1 in 500 million. But although the likelihood of a strangelet catastrophe is minimal, should...
...would be nice if parents and teachers could work together to improve the system for everyone, but human nature can get in the way. Both sides know that resources are limited, and all kinds of factors play into how they are allocated--including whose elbows are sharpest. Many schools, fearful of "bright flight," the mass departure of high-achieving kids, feel they have no choice but to appease the most outspoken parents. "I understand, having been a parent, the attitude that 'I don't have time to fix the whole system; I don't have time and energy...
...sharpest criticism came in response to the Educational Policy Committee’srecommendation to limit concentration requirements to 12 half-courses, regardless of whether or not a student intends to graduate with honors...
...unshaven. She's easygoing and glamorous (as a young girl, she dreamed of being a princess). But when it comes to making movies, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui are a perfect match: they act, they produce, and as a screenwriting team, they are French cinema's sharpest critics of the bourgeois élite, people whose relationships they portray as always on the brink of collapse and whose dinner parties combust into uncivil wars. Bacri and Jaoui have written six films together, but it was 2000's warm comedy Le Goût des Autres (The Taste...