Word: wising
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...great job of providing that.” “You can imagine,” he added, “what it would be like if Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop could be connected and all have access to the same resources. I think that was very wise of them.” Several group members also said they returned to Harvard with a reassured confidence in Harvard’s residential House model. “For me,” said Colin T. Flood ’09, a member of the House Planning Program Committee...
...Engdahl] said many things out of frustration at the end of an interview...that were not wise,” Wästberg said. “I regret that...
...seem to discuss and debate issues with anything approaching respect or intellectual honesty. We oversimplify, we distort, we dismiss. We turn the challengers into enemies. And when that madness infects our private discourse, our family members become foes. Not good for family harmony--and not a very wise way to go about choosing a world leader. Mitch Neuger, SAN FRANCISCO...
...Policymakers, developmental economists, and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) would be wise to note the Planeteers’ two most salient lessons. First, the human race has never been in harmony with nor entirely an enemy of nature, but rather has oscillated somewhere in between. We are too weak to forgo exercising power over other life forms, but strong enough not to be indifferent. The second lesson, trite as it may seem, is that human ingenuity and creative collaboration can overcome problems of exploitation and steer a sustainable cultivation of the planet...
...continue to battle global warming and other dangers, as Al Gore ’69 strikes his silly messianic pose, and as the generation that watched sappy early 90s cartoons comes into its own, it would be wise to remember the lessons of the noble Captain Planet: Dauntless thinking-outside-the-box, teamwork, and being a participant in the world’s growth rather than an enemy fighting for its resources, can overcome even our most formidable problems. The power is YOURS...