Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senators ran into another dead-end Tuesday, in the shape of former DNC chairman Donald L. Fowler. Although Fowler knew at the time that the now-infamous Buddhist temple event was "in essence" a fund-raiser, he insists the Vice President did not share that wisdom. Fowler also claimed he couldn't recall asking the CIA to recommend White House access for the rich and very shady donor Roger Tamraz, who wanted to push a Mideast oil pipeline deal. "Memory is fallible," said the former Democratic chief...
Many schools use upperclass students this way. But Harvard has characteristically chosen this more expensive method to care for its young, the argument being that older, more experienced adults have more to offer-both in wisdom and in safety-to novice Harvardians...
Proctors agree they have greater responsibility, but that responsibility doesn't automatically translate into a perfect, rule-abiding entryway. Subjectivity must occasionally enter into proctor judgments, and when it comes to creating order and harmony in a hall full of first-years, not even the age and wisdom of Solomon could make everybody happy all the time...
...Soros is gleefully flouting the script for Act II. With a unique and astonishing passion for challenging conventional wisdom, he is leveraging his billions to move controversial ideas and speculate in policy. In the process, he has made himself the most influential, intriguing and to some the most infuriating philanthropist of our era. Says he: "When I was offered an honorary degree at Oxford, they asked me how I wanted to be described, and I said I would like to be called a financial, philanthropic and philosophical speculator...
...Close Encounters of the Third Kind and this summer's Contact reawakened the human craving to reach out and touch those things we do not know. While the jolly Jet Propulsion Lab fellows liked to drown out the Martian silence with Twist and Shout, these movies are about the wisdom of being quiet enough to hear the otherworldly message--the simple sequence of chords that announces the aliens' arrival in Close Encounters, the pounding radio signal from Vega that Jodie Foster's character picks up in Contact...