Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's Russia-first emphasis is understandable but needs to be moderated. "We resisted blackmail when Russia was strong," says Henry Kissinger. "Does it make sense to permit Moscow to blackmail us now with its domestic weakness?" The problem, says Council on Foreign Relations president Leslie Gelb, in an insight several Administration aides agree is "right on," is that Clinton "is determined to avoid being tagged with having lost Russia. Yet it should be obvious that democracy in Russia will be won or lost almost exclusively by the Russians themselves." And if reform fails in Russia, says James Baker...
...nomination of Judith Rodin is excellent news not only for Penn but for all of higher education," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine. "She is a person of extraordinary skill and insight, and all of us in the university community will benefit from her leadership and good counsel...
Genet offers disturbing insight into the connections between politics and psychology. White pinpoints the essentially private nature of Genet's political motivations. He was from his youth filled with such hatred for anything which smelled of "the establishment" that he identified with outsiders more because they were outsiders than out of any sense of fairness. This fact made him a dubious political ally; he announced once that he wouldn't support the Palestinians if they ever received a homeland, and was fond of saying, "I would like the world not to change so that I can be against the world...
...Identifying the mechanism by which the Hepatitis C virus infection is involved in malignant transformations of cells should provide important insight into the role of the virus in human cancer," says Walker...
...done extensive research on the physiology of sleep and dreams, now claims Freud's intuition of its existence was correct, even if his conclusions were off the mark: "He's right that there is a coherent psychological structure beneath the level of the conscious. That's a marvelous insight for which he deserves credit. And he deserves credit too for sensing that dreams are the 'royal road' to the unconscious...