On a personal level, it seems like Aubrey Drake Graham is not an academics guy.
He's an academic-looking guy with glasses, a blazer, and an accent that he tells me originated in Arizona.
"In academic seminars, the guy runs a T-test," Mr. Shiller said, referring to a common statistical technique.
The Telegraph in Britain makes a similar argument in "Vikram Pandit: The academic 'hedge fund guy," noting that some also saw Mr. Pandit as "too timid and academic to run a global bank".
"He came in as a brilliant academic — a very smart guy with a very deep background in monetary economics — but it was as an academic," said Donald Kohn, who served as the Fed's vice chairman under Mr. Bernanke until 2010.
You remember: Indiana Jones, a cool-looking scruffed-up guy (and academic!), enters some hidden temple where others have failed to pilfer treasures before him.
Like you have the bullies and the best bully, you have the academics and the smartest guy.
Dr. Watson, known in academic circles as "the mistletoe guy," had long suspected that his favorite plant was a keystone species, meaning it punches above its weight, ecologically speaking, but even he was unprepared for the results.
At that, the all-too-eager Mrs. Bent, from Scarsdale, N.Y., began nudging her daughter to show this fellow -- a smart man, a man of high academic standing, a really nice guy -- around.
"Any student out there who's enrolled at the university and is in good academic standing and a good guy and can kick field goals and can kick the ball into the end zone, we'll have another tryout for you," Rodriguez declared, with an honest intention to do so.
