Word: wiseness
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...debate sharpens in the U.S. Congress over Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's proposed $700 billion bailout package, Washington policymakers would be wise to lift their gaze beyond the Beltway and take a look at Sweden. That country has already been in this particular policy hell, during a banking crisis of its own in the early 1990s. "The basic conditions are the same," says Bo Lundgren, Sweden's Finance Minister at the time. "There was the same anxiety and the same need for confidence." He's one of a number of Swedish financial types who have been shuttling...
...could put aside some sad facets (anti-abortion, evangelism, creationism) they remained our closest allies and friends in this world. Tragically my convictions were put to the test when I discovered that a possible Vice President of the United States represents all those tragic values. Does it really seem wise, in an age when the bonds between Western countries should be stronger than ever, to give some Europeans yet an other excuse to reject America? Julien Dumont, LASNE, BELGIUM...
...things stand today, each of us decides each day to what extent we will adhere to these rules. But no matter how well we fit in appearance-wise, the reality is, those of us who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and transgender are already gender non-conforming. In our quest for normalcy and acceptance, we’ve lost sight of the goal which will make the world an infinitely better, safer place for all people, everywhere—total freedom to be, and express, gender however we see fit, without fear for our safety, our sanity, or our livelihoods...
...class, partially out of pure southern pride. But, with her simple statements of the absurd, her stories also capture the essence of those moments of human existence that are funny, darkly real, or a combination of both. Her characters ask questions like “Do you think it wise to disport with ketchup in Stella-Rondo’s flesh-colored kimono?” even when they lead suffocating lives. They are closed in by poverty and the small towns they live in; their lives are bleak—sometimes too bleak, as in “Flowers...
...come up. That’s one of the reasons I was so looking forward to coming here—finding new things to work on and working on projects with other people who are also studying music. We’ll see how much I can balance schedule-wise...