Word: wisdoms
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Buchanan on race? In 1970 Richard Nixon was weighing the wisdom of enforcing court orders that required the desegregation of Southern public schools, by busing if necessary. A lot of people didn't like the idea. Buchanan was one. As he told Garment, he was working on a speech for Vice President Spiro Agnew that would "tear the scab off the issue of race in this country." In a White House memo, Buchanan argued that "the ship of integration is going down; it is not our ship; it belongs to national liberalism; and we ought not to be aboard...
Conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan's candidacy shatters the myth that money is the key to success in the electoral process, even in a front-loaded process like this year's primaries. The conventional wisdom in Washington was that the brevity of this year's primary season would favor candidates who could raise money in advance. But Buchanan's not doing it with money. He has spent far less money than Dole and Forbes, and even Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) (remember Gramm?), who was one of the first casualties of the season despite his war chest...
...task will be to keep that support in the face of electoral challenges from hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. The Likud Party leader, who opposes the transfer of land to the Palestinians, is gaining on Peres in the polls as Israel approaches elections scheduled for May 29. "The conventional wisdom today is that if Sunday's bombing attacks are all that happens between now and when the elections are held, Israelis will continue to support the peace," Beyer says. "But that could of course change if Hamas successfully carries out more bombings...
...Realism," he said, "is the beginning of wisdom...
...narrator of Zenzele, a woman who writes words of wisdom to her daughter, a Harvard student, explains, "[O]ur churches and governments pour money into [these students], who ultimately drain our resources. If our brightest minds go and never return, then it is no wonder that we have no engineers to run our machinery, no doctors to staff our hospitals, no professors to fill our universities, and no teachers to educate the generations to come...