They are like the super-smart, super-pretty, overachieving big sister who gets into Stanford while the men have looked, at times, like the gawky, pimply, teenage little brother, slouching his way self-consciously through the halls of a high school.

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The year that just ended was a pretty good one for super-large charitable gifts, thanks particularly to Warren Buffett .

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One, as important s this trip is, obviously back in Washington you're trying to keep an eye on the super committee -- most of the reports are pretty grim, that they're not going to get a deal at this point.

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The super-hyped, super-talented tandem of Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg pretty much carried the Nats to a 2-0 season-opening win over the Miami Marlins by themselves on Monday.

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And the fact is that pretty much all of us are indeed within two or so degrees of separation with such a super connected person: thus the only six degrees of separation between any two people.

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