Word: presciently
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...that the television audience viewing Tuesday's court proceedings equaled in numbers those that watched the O.J. Simpson trial. The au pair case has been front page in The New York Times and The Boston Globe for days. Even Washington has jumped onto the bandwagon. Last week, with near prescient timing, the White House sponsored child-care conference about the dearth of safe and responsible child care in this country...
...glories of student organizations, the history of the quest for knowledge and the wonders of living in a place occupied by generations of ghosts. The band played, the choirs sang and, after a handful of hip-hips for Harvard, a smattering of rah-rahs for Radcliffe, a few more prescient words and a "Bon Voyage!" from Rudenstine, the crowd disbanded as the first years set off on their journeys and adventures...
That moment of innocent optimism and, yes, magic quickly faded. In a 1983 cover about royalty and the press that now seems sadly prescient, TIME raised alarms about the relationship between Diana and the paparazzi. Of the royal watchers who pursue their prey in high-speed chases, TIME noted: "There has been so much of this mad motoring that the wonder is that no member of the royal family or the public has been killed...
ANDREW MEIER, who reported on the latest efforts to repair the Mir space station, seems to have a nose for otherworldly troubles. He joined our Moscow bureau last November--just in time to cover the crash of Russia's unmanned Mars probe. Meier's prescient reporting, including a prediction last spring that Mir was star-crossed, has won him few friends in the Russian space community. Annoyed by Meier's detailed accounts of the debacles, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov once growled at him, "The West must understand that this isn't a soap opera...
...first-timer on the campaign trail, Lewis had two prescient impulses. The first was to chuck the tags of the marked-for-isolation press. Using his anonymity, he eavesdrops on Al D'Amato in the bathroom (guess who doesn't wash his hands) and rummages through Bill Clinton's trash. "What are you doing in here?" demands a Clintonite catching him pawing the garbage. "I'm supposed to meet George [Stephanopoulos] here for a drink," lies Lewis, successfully. The second trick was to stick with the losers. Lewis does due diligence by Clinton and Bob Dole, but spends most...