Word: prescient
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...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...
...address at Israel’s national military cemetery in Jerusalem roughly a month after the air strike, Begin predicted that the name “Osirak” would be “remembered and cherished by generations to come.” His speech was remarkably prescient, given the events of the past two decades. After the Gulf War ended in 1991, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney specifically thanked Israel for the 1981 action that had made victory possible. Indeed, the Economist magazine recently noted that if Saddam “had already had nuclear weapons...
...morning is still so seared in our minds here at Time that all the months after that seem to have flashed by. Over the past 12 months, we have run 21 covers devoted to 9/11 and its consequences, ranging from anthrax to Afghanistan, from George W. Bush to a prescient FBI agent in Minnesota named Coleen Rowley. In each case we tried to give you a front-row seat to history, breaking news and making sense out of tumult...
...Though I might not check in as often as everyone else, I will try to make my messages memorable. See ya, Ned, a.k.a. the tall blonde freshman.” As I look back and try to make sense of the last four years, that message is more prescient than I usually give myself credit for. Harvard e-mail has indeed been enjoyable, weird and memorable. And I am still tall and blonde...