Word: presciently
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...Harel's prescient words underscore the fact that the cease-fire proclaimed by Arafat last December, which had been relatively successful, has now been voided on the ground. Even the Israeli military acknowledged at the New Year that there had been a sharp decline in violent incidents since Arafat's televised speech before Christmas. But a week ago the militant Islamist organization Hamas signaled the end of its own undertaking to suspend actions inside Israel, by attacking a military post on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza. Then came Karni's slaying - Israel insists he was planning terror...
...week's end, though, the Guantanamo issue had been supplanted on the front pages by gruesome tales of the terror attack in the northern Israeli town of Hadera. Haaretz commentator Amos Harel could be forgiven for his eerily prescient prediction of the aftermath of last weekend's assassination of Fatah militant Raed Karmi: "There was no need for a degree in political strategy to make an educated guess yesterday about how this week would go," Harel wrote a day before the Hadera attack. "Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number...
...firebrand at times, Summers didn’t hesitate to speak his mind—sometimes at the cost of alienating supporters. He had a reputation for being tactless. While his analysis was always prescient, colleagues say, it was often ruthless...
...literary adroitness that the novel exhibits, Look At Me, or, more precisely, its message, is extremely hard to swallow. Egan is undeniably an incisive and perceptive commentator. Certain aspects of the novel seem eerily prescient; she conceived of the essentials of its plot in 1995. The supremacy of globalization, the rise of reality-TV, the rise of insidious terrorism: Look At Me contains them all. Yet her prognosis for America seems to be nightmarishly overdrawn and more seriously, fundamentally misanthropic. Though American culture may be plumbing new depths, it has not sunk to the level where...
...hype was necessary; the verifiable facts are chilling enough--and, in places, eerily prescient. Take the 1995 closed-door briefing for President Clinton and 400 officials from the U.S., Canada, Britain and Japan by Bill Patrick, former chief of the Army's bioweapons-development program. Patrick described how terrorists--armed with blenders, cheesecloth, garden sprayers and starter bugs mail-ordered from a U.S. germ bank--could spray enough deadly bacteria in the air intakes of the World Trade Center to infect 25,000 people. If that didn't scare anybody then, it will...