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...other hand, is ever going to be dubbed the smartest man in America, as Ken Jennings was, for winning a Showcase Showdown. Price rewards skills that are dismissed as instinctual, nonacademic--let's be honest: housewifely. (Jeopardy!, which favors the kind of buzz-in-first competition boys get drilled into them early, historically had problems getting female contestants.) Players don't show up on Jeopardy! in IT'S-MY-40TH-BIRTHDAY T shirts. They dress for it as if it were a job interview. Contestants leave not with refrigerators but with paychecks. Jeopardy! is about breadwinning; Price is about bread...
...region of the map. The reaction was fast and quite furious. “REPLAY LAST ROUND!” one player exclaimed. “What a douchy rule,” another hissed. “I’m continually amazed at what some of the smartest students in the world can screw...
...sitting or raccoon coats...Sudoku is like that. Walking here this morning I passed a homeless man who was lying in the sidewalk leaned up against the building and he had a newspaper open and he was solving a Sudoku and I thought, “Harvard has the smartest homeless people.”12.FM: Do you think that there is anything that is going to come after Sudoku?WS: You know, it is impossible to predict crazes. The last craze was the Rubik’s cube… We are living in the golden age of puzzles...
...interrupt this rant for a review of the best, surely the smartest, English-language movie of the year to date...
...Rudd is usually the smartest guy in the room. In interviews he often talks down to his host and listeners. One of his tics, and there are numerous variations, is to preface part of an answer with a question: "You know why?" When challenged with serious probing, he appears affronted. Asked about federalism by ABC-TV's Kerry O'Brien, he wielded the word "actually" like a stick. "Well, actually, that's not the approach I've got at all, Kerry. I've just got a healthy regard for what state governments actually do. I used to work...