Word: presciently
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...have to concede at last that the experiment with a sexually integrated military has failed. Some no doubt saw the end coming when three American G.I.s shamed their nation by raping a Japanese schoolgirl in 1995. Others, more prescient, must have realized years ago that in the modern age of "peacekeeping," a military that runs on testosterone is about as useful as a platoon armed with maces and pikes. So enough of this indiscriminate mixing of the genders, any realist will conclude, it's time to shift to an all-female military...
...observes Bowles. "Some of my greatest strengths are in organization and structure; he is a freer thinker than I am." Clinton has always been a showboater; Bowles was forever modest. One of his prep-school teachers stuck a note in his school file praising his respectful manners with a prescient metaphor: "When you're in a duck blind with him and he shoots the bird out from under you, he will make you feel like it was your shot at the bird...
...oldest spousal joke in the book: if he's weird, he must be from your side of the family. But in the Unabomber case it was eerily prescient. It was in fact DAVID KACZYNSKI's wife LINDA PATRIK who first jokingly suggested that his brother Ted might be the Unabomber. In an interview the no longer media-shy Kaczynski family gave 60 Minutes' MIKE WALLACE and LESLEY STAHL, Patrik says the more she read about the Unabomber, the more she wanted David to look at his manifesto. "My motive was primarily to put Linda's mind at ease," says Kaczynski...
...with Clinton during the last campaign. This extraordinary access comes partly because Bentley never gets in the way, partly because he never, ever reveals what he hears, and partly because what he sees through his camera invariably tells a powerful story. "His instincts are unerring, almost prescient," says TIME picture editor Michele Stephenson. The proof, in case anyone still has any doubt: Bentley's poignant photo essay in this week's issue detailing what are probably the most remarkable 48 hours in Dole's political career...
...Phillips, the man who discovered Elvis Presley, denies he ever said it, but the quote is still among the most famous--and most prescient--in the history of rock 'n' roll. "If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel," Phillips is said to have said, "I could make a billion dollars." In a segregrated America in which certain radio stations would not play songs by black artists, Presley more than filled the bill, and in the process helped solidify the image of rock 'n' roll as the music of white teenage rebellion...