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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...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For the PSLM, a Public Presence but Mixed Success | 5/9/2001 | See Source »

...Prescient Pop Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 2001 | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Columnist Outtakes | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roots of America's Culture War | 2/1/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Shenanigans: Pranks or Vandalism? | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

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