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Today is testing day for the high-IQ society. From Geena Davis to porn star Asia Carrera to a 2-year-old Einstein, VIEW OUR GALLERY of its most famous brainiacs.
Obama's Confederate Compromise
Judy Pasternak is a Washington-based journalist. She is writing a book, Yellow Dirt: The Betrayal of the Navajos, which recently won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. It will be published by Free Press.
UPDATE: Following a Daily Beast report on whether the president should continue a Confederate Memorial Day wreath tradition, Obama started a new one this morning, honoring African-American soldiers.
Majors of the Rich and Famous
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Natalie Portman studied psychology. Jeff Bezos loved computer science. And Rahm Emanuel was the big dancer on campus. VIEW OUR GALLERY of celebrity college grads-and some very successful dropouts.
A Chance for the Long Shots
Sean Wilentz is a history professor at Princeton University whose books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln and The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and historian-in residence at Bob Dylan's official website.
At least in Hyde Park, there is optimism, growing less guarded by the hour, about a huge Obama victory-which, of course, will make the Windy City into the nation's de facto political clubhouse.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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