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Israel, for its part should follow through on its promise to compensate the victims and their families. The Israeli government should also review that policy of allowing settlers to keep assault weapons in their homes. In certain cases, the Israeli settlements are in enough danger that this is a prudent measure; in others it is unnecessary...
What does prudence entail? Let's start with the prudent position on free speech. Prudence settles for toleration instead of insisting on the radical elimination of prejudice. It's true that politically-correct types like to pass themselves off as old-fashioned liberals by claiming that what they're doing is "promoting tolerance...
...venture appears fiscally prudent, theresolution should be passed overwhelmingly, saidcouncil member Hassen A. Sayeed...
...highlights all the more clearly the limits of Russian moderation. It would be foolish, therefore, to continue a purely Russocentric policy that bets the house on the hope that with enough Western coaxing and acquiescence, Russia will turn into a Western democracy, a Cyrillic England. It is far more prudent for the West to demonstrate some firmness, to show we will respect Russia's national interests but not its imperial impulses...
Besides the $183,000 loan from Citizens Bank, Whitewater was started with a down payment of $20,000. But documents establish that the $20,000 was also borrowed, from Union Bank of Little Rock. That raises the question of whether the loan from Citizens was prudent, given that there was no cash down payment. Also, it is not known for sure how much, if any, unborrowed cash the Clintons put into Whitewater...