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Spufford, a Brit, conducted enough research to credibly imagine this milieu, and its smarts about race and religion never feel ponderous or forced.

The Dodgers have shown they have the money, and the smarts, and everything else required to sign the cornerstones who can keep the championship foundation strong.

But then gambling scandals happened and position changes happened and injuries happened and the summer nearly went off the rails before baseball boss Andrew Friedman’s smarts and Roberts’ leadership saved them from themselves.

Critics have suggested Harris’ rise had more to do with political savvy — or her relationship in the mid-1990s with San Francisco political kingmaker Willie Brown — than talent or smarts.

Then he mused: “I need an Elon Musk. I need somebody that has a lot of strength and courage and smarts.”