Abigail Brown is a smart girl: academically brilliant and bullied at school.

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On the stand Wednesday, Woodard's mother described Louise as a smart, caring girl.

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The heroine, Raya Green (Rutina Wesley), is a smart, intellectually ambitious girl of Jamaican descent who returns to her Toronto public school after three years at a boarding school where she was the only nonwhite student.

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Well they haven't gone public (yet), but I recall self-styled Bond girl Janes was driving a smart German marque.

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The Bafta children's vote went to the Disney production Smart Guy and the underwater tale of The Ocean Girl won the best international award.

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It's smart to foster a healthy sense of competition, too: Explain to your girl that you expect her to always play her best, even if she's facing off against pals.

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The girl sat very erect and talked too much, as if she were smart, but there was a question at the end of everything she said.

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Elena, who had enjoyed her status as the cleverest girl in the class, has to fall in behind the brilliant Lila, who is as smart at school as she is on the street: she comes in first on all the tests, and can do complicated calculations in her head.

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It's a peach of a role (it hardly needs pointing out that Eastwood has a long history of putting himself up against strong, independent women), and Adams is charming as a smart, attractive, career-driven, pool shootin', baseball lovin', perpetually thwarted daddy's girl.

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