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...told police. "That was the reason they were poisoned." Next he began planning for his favorite recreation, the annual Mensa murder weekend, when the geniuses gather to solve their perfect fantasy crime. "When a death threat appears on the doorstep," he wrote in a booklet for the event, "prudent people throw out all their food and watch what they eat." An undercover agent, planted in Mensa to befriend Trepal and learn his secrets, ultimately found the evidence against him: a small vial in the garage containing traces of thallium. How could a genius be so dumb...
George Bush, as is his habit at times of crisis, escaped the White House on Thursday for a bit of what he calls "prudent recreating" -- an evening at Ford's Theater to see Black Eagles, a play about black airmen in World War II. Says one of his top advisers: "I think it helped clear his mind" for what he knew would be one of the most fateful decisions of his presidency...
...United Nations determines its perspective of "what is right and what is wrong," it implicitly assigns moral worth to "right" actions and moral unacceptability to "wrong" ones. This brand of moralism in foreign policy leads to a much less stable and much more bloody world than a policy of prudent diplomatic calculation. Instead of promoting peace, moralistic foreign policy paves the way for inevitable...
...many ways, the U.S. is already moving toward a smarter, sounder economy after the excesses of the 1980s. Says Gramley: "We are going back to the kinds of prudent, cautious lending standards that prevailed two to three decades ago. That was very much needed. We will be delighted over the long run that we did this, however much it hurts now." That is a good sign, but until the end of the war, the virtues and strengths of the U.S. economy are likely to be partially hidden by the gloom...
...fact, that was not what Waller said, but perhaps he should have. Like any prudent general, Waller was being supercautious. "The military services never tell you they've got enough," says a senior admiral. "They always want just a few more...