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...Senate Commerce Committee has taught him about the mysteries of the information economy. But on most other issues, he's paper thin; he can give you a position but not its underpinnings. He puts his faith in experts and asks voters to as well. "We need to get the smartest minds together to help work this out," he says about too many issues: William Bennett on drug policy, Lindsey Graham on health care, John Breaux on Medicare. Out of all the domestic issues that cut with voters, his campaign has offered detailed proposals only on Social Security reform, taxes...
...Daddy come graduation. Erudite, accomplished and exceptional, these girl geniuses and boy wonders out-read Will Hunting, out-calculate Rainman and out-fly E.T. They're the best and the brightest of the best and the brightest. The crme de la crme of the cream of the crop. The smartest students at Harvard. Or something like that...
...speeches, Levin likes to tell listeners about a game that H.G. Wells invented called Cheat the Prophet. Here's how to play: gather the smartest group of futurists you can find, ask them to describe the future, proceed to go out and undertake everything the futurists consider unthinkable or downright laughable. That's been Levin's career--and Case's. For decades the idea that every home in America would be wired with cable--or connected to a subscription online service--seemed unreasonable and even laughable in many minds...
...cruelties of the American criminal justice system. "People are torn on the topic of juvenile crime and punishment," says Sanders. "On the one hand, murder is murder, and you can't just let kids run around doing whatever they like. On the other hand, even the smartest kid doesn't have the same perspective on his actions that the dumbest adult has." Experts don't expect the Michigan legislature to be much moved by Judge Moore's pleas for a more humane approach to juvenile justice; it seems the current horror at a rash of felonies committed by children outweighs...
Bezos had graduated from Princeton University, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science. The field was unplanned: he had chosen Princeton for its legendary physics department. Shortly after arriving, however, he discovered that he wasn't the smartest guy in the world after all. He felt outclassed by the physics jocks and gravitated to comp...