And these younger workers are just as smart and hard-working as we baby-boomers are.

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The lessons learned from this journey will undoubtedly be of great value to other nations that are just now taking baby steps, and who are smart enough to pay attention to the accomplishments of this small island on the North Sea.

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It might not be the first word to come to mind, but he defended Hilary Swank's right to punch her weight in the Academy Award-winning "Million Dollar Baby, " and he has regularly cast strong, smart actresses in his films, women like Marcia Gay Harden, Frances Fisher, Diane Venora, Sondra Locke and Laura Linney.

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In that regard he is the opposite of, say, Bill Clinton, who brackets the other end of the baby boom: Gates analytically rigorous and emotionally reserved, the President equally smart but intellectually undisciplined and readily intimate.

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It needs to include smart, truly independent experts- and exclude people who have built their careers by touting shaken baby syndrome as a proven common phenomenon.

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