Word: wisdoms
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...discussion has only begun, and Administration officials say they are amazed at how the foreign policy elite in the U.S. has coalesced in opposition to expansion. Skepticism is showing up in Congress as well, where 20 Senators sent Clinton a letter asking a string of questions about the wisdom of letting the East Europeans into the NATO club. They were joined by a group of 50 other notables--retired Senators, military officers, ambassadors and arms-control experts--who signed another letter asking the President to halt before making "a policy error of historic proportions...
...tenderness, there was a hint of the violent in Stewart's innocence. His first reaction to ridicule as Mr. Smith is to hunt reporters down and punch them out--until Jean Arthur's hardbought worldly wisdom is put at his service. The innocent is not good with words, so fists must serve--as Stewart shows when he tries to taunt the glib C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) into fighting him in The Philadelphia Story. Even saintly George Bailey terrorizes his own children before rushing out to do violence to himself...
...performance." Mr. Maguire's advice, generally speaking, was sound: over the past 30 years, the plastics industry has grown faster than the nation's gross domestic product. "The Graduate got it right," says Allan Cohen, who studies the industry for First Analysis in Chicago. "There's a lot of wisdom in that film...
OPRAH WINFREY WELLESLEY COLLEGE "Turn your wounds into wisdom. You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some...will call them failures, but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, 'Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction...
...Americans have learned that we are all responsible for ourselves and our prosperity, and this has paid off. That a sense of self-worth is possible for every American is an ideal upon which our country was founded. Perhaps this is a permanent shift, where prosperity is balanced with wisdom and, most important, a notable lack of rampant greed. DAN KNAUSS Livermore, Calif...