Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard is to remain one of the greatest universities, it must accept the experiences, wisdom and knowledge the world has to offer. Semester at Sea provides that offer to over eight hundred students a year...
Although the voyage and our visits were all too transient, the resulting knowledge, experiences, friends and wisdom were not; far too many students are unable to say that about their undergraduate years and courses. On the Semester at Sea, every second was a minute. When we returned to the U.S., it was like we had experienced another life and been reborn--culturally, spiritually and educationally. The U.S. seemed so different: when we returned, it felt just like another port...
Meanwhile, Clinton has yet to decide whether deficits matter. For months, his polyglot economic team has differed over the wisdom of stimulating the economy through tax cuts or increased spending at the price of boosting the federal deficit and driving up long-term interest rates. The deficit hawks -- more conservative by nature -- want the long-term considerations to predominate. The deficit doves -- typically more liberal -- say it can wait. In recent weeks there is a growing consensus between the two groups that the markets might support a $30 billion-to-$50 billion one-shot stimulus if it is paired with...
...style reforms, China's pragmatic leaders are tapping the mind of a modern-day Zhuge Liang: University of Pennsylvania professor Lawrence Klein. The American Nobel laureate in economics in 1980 was appointed as an adviser to the State Planning Commission, which oversees the industrial sector. They hope Klein's wisdom can help them build a "socialist market economy," Deng's newest oxymoron...
...least expect it. Words to prayers and hymns they have cherished since childhood are gradually changing. Denominations that once would not tolerate divorced ministers now find themselves debating whether to accept avowed lesbian ones. Feminist theologians are searching for new ways of conceiving God himself -- or herself -- as Mother, Wisdom, Sophia, Goddess...