Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infamous 1991 speech to the incoming class, Kagan, who was then Yale college dean, offered some rare wisdom: it is "both right and necessary to place Western Civilization and the culture to which it has given rise, at the center of our studies, and we fail to do so at the peril of our students, our country, and the hopes for a democratic, liberal society...
...most accounts, Haitian and American, Aristide appears a transformed man. Gone is the leftist firebrand who coyly refused to discipline the mob that brought him to power. Gone too is the self-righteous, mercurial contrarian of Washington exile. In their place is a man whom experience has imbued with wisdom, a newfound respect for dialogue and a deft skill for the politics of pragmatism...
...committee member N. Van Taylor '96-'95 questioned the wisdom of discussing a "divisive" issue...
...incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who said, "It's good for the country and good for the president that she's departed." (The most prominent Elders defender so far, birth-control booster Planned Parenthood, said this afternoon that Elders had brought "a welcome dose of real-world wisdom" to Washington...
...practically impossible to fathom how much our squash teams are killing everyone. In the NFL, the common wisdom is that Dallas has built a "dynasty" with their Super Bowl victories the past two seasons and is equalling the "dynasties" of the Steelers or the Niners or whoever...