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When disputes arise during the planning stages and couples realize they can't agree to disagree, they call off the wedding altogether--the wisdom being, better now than later. Wedding planner JoAnn Gregoli says that in 15 years, she has never seen so many cancellations as in the past year--many of them far into the engagement. "Nobody wants to settle," she says. "Women who marry today are older, more educated and more self-sufficient. They would rather go through the ordeal of canceling a wedding than make what could be a huge mistake...
...shared his wisdom as an economist and labor negotiator not only with our students for nearly fifty years, but with the highest circles in our nation’s government,” Kirby wrote. “He shaped this school, and the world beyond this school. His strength and integrity will be missed...
...Lentz is a museum leader of exceptional wisdom, vision, and skill,” Hyman said in a press release on Friday. “He brings to the directorship a keen intelligence, knowledge of and deep affection for Harvard’s art museums, and a profound commitment to education...
During the post-Saigon years, the Vietnam syndrome was conventional wisdom among our political and cultural elites. It held that Americans wouldn’t support moralistic or strategic military intervention if it proved too costly in American lives. The Vietnam syndrome evolved into its post-Cold War form on the streets of Mogadishu. The domestic outrage that ensued convinced Bill Clinton that public opinion would inevitably revolt against any nation-building effort—or any war at all—at the first sign of casualties. This concern echoed throughout his presidency. It led to his ordering...
...current situation--that the Islamic world will more easily accept the new reality in Iraq if political authority is vested in the U.N. and then rapidly handed over to Iraqis--is entirely in line with France's long-held principles. That position may be mistaken, for conventional wisdom holds that nation building can't be hurried, but it is not self-evidently absurd or anti-American. So why the new round of Paris bashing...