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...conservatives need a leader, someone who can fortify common ground—fiscal prudence??and navigate disputed territory—foreign policy and social issues. “There’s no counterweight to these socialists,” said David Aron, a 25-year-old from Hamden, Conn. But who will that counterweight be? “I’m excited about Palin, Romney…” Melissa Welsh, an onlooker, told me, her voice trailing off as she hit the bottom of a short list. Conservatives shouldn’t write...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: The Hartford Tea Party | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...calling the country out for its “limpid, flaccid nature.” Canadians have been accused of not thinking with their penises for refusing to sign on for a paltry “hundred years of war.” But forget our foresight and prudence??the question has become whether we Canadians can recover our manhood...

Author: By Brian S. Chen | Title: Please, Don’t Mention Us | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...this outlook, which its adherents often contrast with the cynicism of their elders, cannot hope to live up to expectations. The art of politics demands prudence??the rational faculty that determines, in a given situation, what is possible and practicable. Experience, habit, and keen observation help develop this faculty—an unadorned albeit indomitable hope is only a lazy substitute...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: The Delusion of Hope | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

Panelist Father J. Bryan Hehir introduced the evening’s popular buzzwords of “prudence?? and “ethics...

Author: By Mollie K Wright, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Hosts Panel on Danish Cartoons | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

After the graduate proseminar, Pinker’s girlfriend, Rebecca Goldstein, a visiting philosophy professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and a well-known scholar herself, picks him up for a book party hosted by advice columnist Margo Howard of “Dear Prudence?? fame...

Author: By Kristin E. Blagg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DAY IN THE LIFE: How Steven Pinker Works | 11/4/2005 | See Source »

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