Search Details

Word: smartest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...point,” he says, “was not being the smartest guy in the room, but being with yourself and your...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Poet Laureate, In Vino Veritas | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...that will require private schools to publish the social benefits they generate to justify their charitable tax-exemption status. Eton has only a handful of true competitors at the top of the private-school heap, plenty of money and applicants, and it has honed its procedures to identify the smartest boys. But it is uniquely in the public eye - Princes William and Harry didn't go to Beaufort Community School - so the continuing criticisms of Eton's role in perpetuating a stratified society have an impact. The school was founded to educate "poor scholars," and while existing programs to reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Kind of Elite | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...benefits from studying at college with different numbers or proportions of blacks or Californians or athletes or socialists is not clear,” the Klitgaard Report said, according to the excerpt released by The Crimson in 1980.“You’re not just taking the smartest people,” he says now. “You’re looking at lots of things.” Klitgaard says he still cannot provide a definitive answer as to why minorities lag behind but that this may be a drawback of affirmative action...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Questioned Diversity And Affirmative Action | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...unearth some good ones and sing hallelujah. So all praise to Paolo Sorrentino's The Family Friend, a mordant Italian comedy about a gnarled moneylender and the beautiful young woman he hopes to corrupt and conquer; it's the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale with a toxic twist, and the smartest entertainment at Cannes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Highs and Lows | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...done every week before. “I think we expected them to come in second place,” said Shira R. Brettman ’07. “But when we saw the final challenge, and it was placing flags, we knew they were the smartest.” Immediately after the airing, Averell rushed to a CBS-sponsored “convention” for fans of the show. “You walk in there, and it’s like being Tom Cruise in China,” he said. “Everyone...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum Snags 1st in Reality Show Race | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

First | Previous | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | Next | Last