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Largely ignored in recent years and stripped of critical funding as recently as July, the Nunn-Lugar Act, or "Cooperative Threat Reduction Program" has garnered public attention since the September 11th attacks. Once regarded as peripheral, the Nunn-Lugar now looks not only prescient but absolutely essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nunn-Lugar Act: Old Fears, New Era | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...Underneath the bravado, however, there is a growing fear that perhaps FORTUNE was prescient. Hong Kong is having trouble competing, not only with a rising China, but against a world built on brains, not asset trading. As the mainland maintains its rapid growth rates, Hong Kong is barely above water after three years of stagnation. To the question "Is Hong Kong dying?" a prominent barrister recently offered this reply, made only half in jest: "It is already dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hong Kong Dying? | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...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 »

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