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...What Terrorists Want,” was the only one who predicted that night just how difficult the course of the conflict would be, Frieden wrote. Richardson said she remembers voicing doubt about how easy it would be to defeat Saddam—not a particularly prescient comment, it turned out—but also about how easy it would be to win the peace. “I certainly felt I was the lone wolf,” she said. “Nobody likes to be seen as soft on terrorism, soft on the bad guys...
...wrong at Harvard. You an also get it right at Harvard.” He named colleagues—including Walt, former Barack Obama adviser Samantha Power, Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, and Stanley Hoffmann—whose concerns about the war in Iraq had proved prescient. “I wouldn’t want my remarks to imply or suggest that I’m criticizing my colleagues and friends for a lack of realism,” he said. “That sounds pretty weird, doesn’t it? I got it wrong...
...Reality Check "A Momentous Journey" is how the Phil's p.r. director Eric Latzky had called it in Beijing the day before the flight to Pyongyang. Immediately after the concert, he had seemed prescient. But momentous things sometimes last just a moment. This is still North Korea we're talking about. Kim Jong Il has run the place now for nearly 14 years. He has not, to date, shown himself to be an agent of change. He still runs a rogue regime, suspected recently of aiding Syria in building what Israeli intelligence believes to have been a nuclear-weapons facility...
...current show in the Sert Gallery: “A Little Piece of Heaven (1998-2008),” which revolves around the architecture of Caracas and even exhibits Moholy-Nagy’s book). Moholy-Nagy also proposed an environmentally conscientious approach to architecture, one that seems particularly prescient today.Moholy-Nagy also had a contentious relationship with Harvard. Architect Walter Gropius persuaded her to donate the seminal kinetic sculpture “Light-Space Modulator” to Harvard’s Fogg museum. Her husband, the prominent Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, created the piece. Moholy-Nagy...
...made a dent. But if Obama does--and with Hispanics trending hard toward the Democrats, he probably will--he'll get a much bigger boost. The other half of Obama's coalition--college-educated whites--has also been growing fast. As John Judis and Ruy Teixeira noted in their prescient 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, professionals now make up almost 20% of the American workforce, far more than in 1972. This fall, for the first time in memory, blue-collar whites may not constitute a majority at the polls...