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...government of national unity for five years after the first free elections in April. Full-scale majority- rule democracy would arrive, with some time allowed for all South Africans to get used to it. In perhaps their finest moment since their first meeting, De Klerk and Mandela recognized the wisdom of this plan and made critical concessions. De Klerk dropped his insistence on building in some form of white veto over majority rule. Mandela relinquished his demand for a strong centralized government and accepted a form of federalism that grants nine provinces some attributes of autonomy...
...President who is "not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either." Even more stinging was the interview given by Brent Scowcroft--National Security Adviser to Bush's father during the first Gulf War--to the New Yorker, in which he not only questioned the wisdom of invading Iraq but also criticized the wider Bush doctrine of spreading democracy in the Middle East...
...much harder, then, for the average local police officer to discover the plans of ad-hoc teams of murderers like the men who bombed Madrid and London, and who hide among Muslim communities that are themselves relatively impenetrable. But frustrating as it might be to the authorities, the collective wisdom of our ancestors says that before you can be imprisoned, you must first be caught, tried and convicted...
...writer can sit down in a room and write down virtually anything he or she wants to do and then we have the means to achieve it.”Those may not sound like the words of Yoda, but there’s more than a little wisdom in them, nonetheless.—Staff writer Abe J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu...
...replace the superficial race question, college admissions officers should pay closer attention to applicants’ personal statements and letters of reference, whose purpose is to give the kind of insight well suited for making judgments about diversity. By now it is conventional wisdom that colleges seek diversity when making admissions decisions, so we can hope that applicants will see it in their own best interest to be forthcoming about their unique backgrounds and experiences in their applications...