Tim Geithner! Why Are Rich People So Cheap?
By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT
WASHINGTON
Smart is the new cool.
So said Arne Duncan, the Chicago schools’ chief, at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday to be Barack Obama’s education secretary.
Obama’s brainy ways and political posse of “hot nerds,” as one admiring reporter dubbed them, could inspire schoolchildren to aspire.
When Duncan spends a little more time in Washington, he will learn something strange: Politics is a place where really smart people often get caught doing really dumb things.
Take Tim Geithner, the hot nerd tapped by Obama to fix the colossal mess left by W. and Henry Paulson, a man who played with live snakes and dead-on-arrival ideas.
(More here.)
NYT
WASHINGTON
Smart is the new cool.
So said Arne Duncan, the Chicago schools’ chief, at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday to be Barack Obama’s education secretary.
Obama’s brainy ways and political posse of “hot nerds,” as one admiring reporter dubbed them, could inspire schoolchildren to aspire.
When Duncan spends a little more time in Washington, he will learn something strange: Politics is a place where really smart people often get caught doing really dumb things.
Take Tim Geithner, the hot nerd tapped by Obama to fix the colossal mess left by W. and Henry Paulson, a man who played with live snakes and dead-on-arrival ideas.
(More here.)
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