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To: Bridge Player who wrote (332647)	11/6/2009 4:04:18 PM
From: Bill	5 Recommendations Respond to of 793970

So getting votes means one is intelligent? I bet Bush and Palin are glad to hear that. -g-

To: Bridge Player who wrote (332647)	11/6/2009 4:04:53 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793970

Change in Selection System Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said. Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review. nytimes.com popularity contest, doesn't show intelligence, look at Miss South Carolina that was a bigger contest she won

To: Bridge Player who wrote (332647)	11/6/2009 4:14:21 PM
From: skinowski	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

As a measure of intelligence, it's not a bad credential Agree, it is. The problem is that intelligence is often (stupidly) overrated. We all know people of remarkable natural intelligence who never put it to any constructive use. High IQ by itself is no assurance that a man - or his beliefs - make any sense.