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Although the recent decision by Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) to convert the Shops by Harvard Yard into University-owned shops and services has raised the hackles of vendors, we support the University's prudent and financially astute move...
Greenspan, however, has motives beyond his own job security for at least partly accommodating White House wishes. The Fed chairman would badly tarnish his reputation as a prudent monetary watchdog if he allowed a recession to develop by keeping interest rates too high for too long. And he can now claim victory in the fight against inflation that he had long rated more important than promoting economic growth. Last year was the fourth in a row in which consumer prices rose by less than 3%, a period of stability unmatched in three decades...
...place. In October 1993, when Yeltsin's opponents challenged his presidency by force, it was an act of principle as well as prudence for the U.S. to stand beside him. In '96, when they are challenging him at the ballot box, it is neither principled nor prudent to enter the fray...
America's intervention in Somalia, which cost $2 billion and the lives of 30 servicemen and changed nothing, along with the crisis in Haiti and the war in Bosnia, has impelled U.S. leaders to search for new definitions of the nation's interests abroad. Even the prudent George Bush, who ordered U.S. troops to Somalia in the first place, was rethinking the old guidelines just before he left office. He suggested that "military force might be the best way to protect an interest that qualifies as important but less than vital." Force is a key adjunct to diplomacy, he argued...
...Boston showed that newborn monkeys with immature immune systems did not respond as healthy adults do. All the young primates, in fact, developed the very disease the weakened virus was supposed to prevent. For this and a host of other reasons, most AIDS researchers argue that the only prudent strategy is to concoct a hybrid vaccine, putting the key features of a disabled AIDS virus into something more benign than a retrovirus. Among the leading candidates: the vaccinia virus that successfully wiped out smallpox...