Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, while we need to keep Coles's insight and wisdom at Harvard, the University shouldn't make public service a priority simply for his benefit. Indeed, Harvard should observe extreme caution in this situation; giving Coles a huge program could spur other important professors to threaten to leave...
...disturbed by the staff's attempt to turn a criticism of administrative bureaucracy into an attack on Radcliffe College. The above editorial raises two issues which are glibly combined into one: the wisdom of hiring another administrator and the merits of the existence of Radcliffe...
...aggressors, thugs and terrorists . . . conclude that the best way to get us to change our policies is to kill our people," Clinton said of Somalia. But when 18 U.S. troops were gunned down in Mogadishu, the President changed our policy: We left. Reasonable people may disagree about the wisdom of those policies. That is not the point. The point is that the President's words cannot be counted on for meaning...
...member isn't seem as being objective--even if in reality she is. For me, this is the essence of the conflict of interest question. All of us, when told that we can't write or edit a story because of a conflict issue, have wondered about the wisdom of the policy. Often, I feel I can be objective even when officially I have a conflict. Nevertheless, though, it helps with credibility if someone else does. The Crimson is seen as being more objective by its readers this was. That's reason enough for us to have a strong conflict...
...their lives to "overpopulate" the earth. They died in childbirth, as did three of my own great-grandmothers, each by the age of 31. Or they squandered their health on pregnancy after pregnancy, with as many as half ending in miscarriage or dead babies. Even within this century, medical wisdom held that "maternity is another word for eternity" and that women really were the weaker, sicker...