Word: smart
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...worth of mergers and acquisitions at Lazard Freres before exiting as a general partner. Prouty could have retired. "But that was a sure way to feel like an old man on the shelf," says Prouty, 61. "Instead I chose to work with people half my age and twice as smart...
Hypocritically, students are allowed to use microwaves if they are part of Harvard Student Agencies' microfridge, which can be yours (just for a year) if you plunk down a few hundred dollars. I guess the school is suggesting that if you are smart enough to take part in their amazing deal, you're intelligent enough to use a microwave without starting a fire. Not only that, but proctors and other university officers are apparently viewed by the administration as responsible enough to toast a slice of bread without turning Canaday into the Towering Inferno, Part...
...Everybody else is doing it," he says. "Even if you're smart and you know the stuff, it pays to take the course," he says...
...huge burden--a lot of commitment," Kiprilov acknowledges. "[But] some of the tricks and some of the strategies...are invaluable, even for smart people. It's a tricky test...
...What economists call the return to education has been increasing very dramatically," Lemann says. "Back in my era, the smart kid in California would go to Stanford or Berkeley. Now the smart kid...is much more likely to apply to Harvard. You have a bigger pool of people chasing a fixed number of slots in the top professional schools...