Word: wisdoms
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...clarified, publicized and affirmed. The traditional defense of diversity efforts--one that once held up in court though now has only questionable standing--is utilitarian. "Diversity is not an end in itself, or a pleasant but dispensable accessory. It is the substance from which much human learning, understanding and wisdom derive. It offers one of the most powerful ways of creating the intellectual energy and robustness that lead to greater knowledge," Neil L. Rudenstine wrote in his 1996 President's Report...
Richard Attenborough's much-Oscared movie Gandhi struck me, when it was first released, as an example of this type of unhistorical Western saintmaking. Here was Gandhi-as-guru, purveying that fashionable product, the Wisdom of the East; and Gandhi-as-Christ, dying (and, before that, frequently going on hunger strike) so that others might live. His philosophy of nonviolence seemed to work by embarrassing the British into leaving; freedom could be won, the film appeared to suggest, by being more moral than your oppressor, whose moral code could then oblige him to withdraw...
Then began the real test. Every inch of the way, Mandela had to win the support of his own followers. More difficult still was the process of allaying white fears. But the patience, the wisdom, the visionary quality Mandela brought to his struggle, and above all the moral integrity with which he set about to unify a divided people, resulted in the country's first democratic elections and his selection as President...
...enter here to grow in religious wisdom? There are courses on religion, but experience is more powerful than scholastic involvement. For a start, go to one of the many churches in and around the Square, attend services at Hillel and read posters about Christian a cappella groups or the next event sponsored by the United Ministry, the umbrella group for religions at Harvard. Seek out the groups you feel you do not know enough about...
MOSCOW: When rhetoric develops a life of its own, all political bets are off. Conventional wisdom has held that Russia's opposition would go through the motions of rejecting Boris Yeltsin's nominee for prime minister once, or even twice, but would back down before Yeltsin called new elections. Problem is, says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich, "no one expected the vengeance with which the opposition today tried to dump this young fellow...