Word: prescient
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...would be "letting this tyrant get stronger." In January 1998, Wolfowitz joined other neoconservatives in signing a letter to Clinton arguing that "containment" of Saddam had failed and asserting that "removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power ... needs to become the aim of American foreign policy." In a prescient note, the letter said, "American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the U.N. Security Council...
Last week Harvard, New York and America lost of one of its most prescient and luminary minds. Moynihan will be remembered most for his service to his Country: his near quarter-century representing New York in the United States Senate, his enormous impact as adviser to four consecutive United States presidents, and his distinguished tenure as ambassador to India and to the United Nations...
...Elvis made his national TV debut in January 1956 on the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey "Stage Show," preceded by a number in which 12 chorine danced while playing xylophones. Just before he came on stage, Cleveland DJ Bill Randle uttered these inflated but prescient words: "We think tonight that he's going to make television history for you. We'd like you to meet him now: Elvis Presley...
...home again: stepping across the line into Oz transformed her into a seeker of the wider world, as all good voyages do. "The journey creates us. We become the frontiers we cross." And he is perceptive on the perils of giving up freedoms in a time of crisis. Prescient too: 21 months before the Sept. 11 attacks, he warned in a newspaper column, "The defining struggle of the new age [will] be between terrorism and security." Even at his worst, Rushdie is engaging: talking music with Bono (who wanted to discuss politics), hanging out with Van Morrison (who disliked...
Such freedom requires that indictments for bigotry should be held up to the strictest burdens of proof. Summers is prescient to point to “an upturn in anti-Semitism globally,” which is a dangerous threat that must be fought vigorously. But we have seen no evidence for the link he proposes between this worldwide trend and the students and faculty who support divestment at Harvard. Summers presented no evidence beyond the misguided assumption that anything opposed to Israel’s policies is anti-Semitic...