Word: wisdoms
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...reduce gang-related violence in America's inner cities, goes the conventional wisdom, is to persuade teenagers to quit their gangs. But that prescription seemed a little too simplistic to Chicago bureau chief Jon Hull, who had reported extensively on such groups during a stint in TIME's Los Angeles bureau. Says Jon: "When you join a gang, you make a very serious commitment. I had the sense that it wasn't so easy to leave one." So he took to the streets for three weeks, trying to find out what it takes to graduate from a gang. His frightening...
...hard to imagine a 14-year-old girl crying. Her name is Roza Galieva. She is the gymnast from the gold-winning Unified Team who successfully fought her way to the coveted all-around competition, only to be robbed of her chance. Her coaches, in their unified wisdom, decided that one of Galieva's teammates, Tatiana Gutsu, was more likely to bank gold even though she had flubbed during the earlier team competition. So they exaggerated a knee injury to bench Galieva, made a quick substitution and, lo, Gutsu was in. Sure enough, she won the gold. Now Gutsu...
Tyler's pop wisdom, too, is definitively now, his concerns specific to a modern era: "Watching TV with another person is vaguely embarrassing--you feel like you're partially on display--like you're riding in a glass elevator at the mall...
...troubles, including its own serious bout of secessionism 130 years ago and the persistence of various forms of tribalism today, the U.S. is still the best example of a multinational federal state. If that model does indeed work globally, it would be the logical extension of the Founding Fathers' wisdom, therefore a special source of pride for a world government's American constituents...
...youngest naval aviator (Bush). But crowing about the "generational thing" is little more than an obvious way of playing the cards that Clinton dealt himself. Had he chosen Lee Hamilton, as seemed likely for a while, the Clintonians' spin would have pushed regional balance, foreign-policy experience and aged wisdom. The fact is, the only problem Clinton had to avoid was a post-selection examination that could find his No. 2 wanting. With Gore, the chances for such a disaster are minimized. He is, as the ticket's pollster says, a "prudent" choice. Having run for President himself four years...