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...game. The notion of a battle won by the supposed weaker player is an idea that radiates from these rare, passionate pieces of Bak's paintings. In Symposium, sagacious men discuss where to replant their tree which floats above, its roots emerging from an egg, its branches unseen. These prudent scholars consult sheets devoid of script, blank as the future...
...there were a "pasts" market on the stock exchange similar to the futures market, it would be prudent to start investing in the midcentury now. For if ever one decade were in love with another, the '90s is crazy about the '50s. This is not the '50s of Happy Days or Pleasantville, where people are decent but unsophisticated. This is the sleekly glamorous decade of architects Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner and Albert Frey and designers Charles and Ray Eames. This is the decade when the rest of the world looked with envy at American products, homes and life...
...most prudent opposition to religious condemnation of homosexuality, then, is not to impugn religion's place in public discourse, but to debate the legitimacy of interpreting the Bible to this end. Religious reasoning against homosexuality should not be cast aside as easily as has become common practice--rather, it must be examined and energetically engaged. Homosexuality might also be opposed cogently by traditionalists. To the suggestion that homosexuality ought to be approved and embraced, the starchy traditionalist might reasonably reply: "Thanks, but heterosexuality as the sole acceptable form of sexual expression has been working out tolerably well over the past...
...Seven to 10 percent declines rarely will affect the financial health of a university in the short run," says John C. Nelson, senior vice president at Moody's Investors Services in New York. "This is where we are seeing the benefits of being prudent...
Even though it was prudent in waiting a year, the administration will have to do more than scrounge between couch cushions to make up the difference...