I have a friend who is an astrophysicist at Columbia. Lovely woman but you haven't heard of her. But most of us have heard of Brian Green. Even when you watch the Fabric of the Cosmos, you see the ones that break ground, take risks, travel to deliver their ideas. Leadership doesn't necessary mean money or politics. It can be showing leadership in thought.

(BTW DD7 is doing astrophysics at amnh next semester)

Lucounu, you really have it out for Palin. There is the thought that she is gifted, just super lazy. All those colleges etc. Couldn't apply herself. I think she is just a universal oddity of success without applying yourself at all. I don't want my kid to be like that.