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...would keenly appreciate the spirited comedy of manners that is being played out inside the Democratic Party: like spinsters preening before the village bachelor, Democrats are jockeying for position in a future Dukakis Administration. Some call this genteel process Potomac Fever. Others view it as the Waltz of the Wise Men Wanna...
...sooner or later, if they keep at it, the new gardeners discover what the others have known all along: the satisfactions have little to do with anything they can read, buy or brag about. "A garden is for its owner's pleasure," advised that wise, earthy doyenne of English gardening, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), "and whatever the degree or form of that pleasure, if only it be sincere, it is right and reasonable, and adds to human happiness in one of the purest and best of ways...
Jeffrey J. Wise...
...wasting my time? Why don't you mind your own business. It's a nice day--run along and play the stock market or something. We've all got things to do, and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit around and listen to some wise...
...university embarks on its second century, Donald Kennedy is striving to focus its vital energies not on institutional power struggles and polemics but on "preparing new leadership for this society." Stanford trains talented students, he recently told an alumni group, "out of faith that their capacity for wise and compassionate leadership is the best possible guarantee of the survival of everything we think is important." It is an ambitious, perhaps even a utopian, undertaking. But it is exactly what Leland Stanford had in mind...