Word: presciently
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...PSLM is unhappy with the committee's recommendations, they will still have the support on-campus to push for more changes. Perhaps, though, one cheer during yesterday's rally might be prescient...
...Prescient Pop Song...
...prescient comments that came my way in the last month: First, the observation by a TF that she had never seen a place that offered so many opportunities to its students as Harvard, and then placed so many obstacles in the way of getting to do them; second, a friend who, musing on a similar quandry, said some people seem "too human" for their own good around here. Finally, a fellow thesis-writer, coming up on deadline, said that he felt "lobotomized" by the process. Is that the sort of medical condition you should have documented before midterms...
...Gramscians and Tocquevillians. The Gramscians take their name from the 20th-century Marxist intellectual and politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). As Fonte remarks: "Despite [Gramsci's] enormous influence on today's politics, he remains far less well-known to most Americans than does Tocqueville," the prescient young French visitor who figured out America so brilliantly a hundred years before Gramsci's death...
...quick to point to travails they suffered during their first few days at work - staffers for former president Bush reportedly removed the cords connecting receivers to phones and left office furniture spackled with photographs of the elder Bush and Bush-Quayle campaign stickers. One staff member remembers an especially prescient note left in a desk occupied by a Bush aide. It read, simply, "We'll be back...