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...knew that sometimes how one reached a decision was as important as the decision itself. He had the courage to face facts as they were, not as he would like them to be. And in that, Justice Powell represented the best we could hope to become: a genuinely wise man for whom balanced judgment represented a prime virtue...
...chaos started two weeks ago, when the Yeltsin government effectively devalued the Russian ruble by about 34%. To some folks, this limited devaluation appeared to be a wise move that might strengthen Russia's exhausted central bank. Since the Russian economy had been quietly improving last year, a small relaxation of the currency could have helped boost demand for Russian exports, which would have pushed the recovery along. From an Economics 101 perspective, the approach was a sensible--if risky--way to help Russia through a tough patch. Even Soros argued that a small devaluation, linked with other measures...
DARYL HANNAH and ooky are not usually words that belong in the same sentence (unless perhaps ooky is part of kooky). But Morticia Addams, even in the straight-to-video Addams Family Reunion, is actually a natural role for the nonnatural brunette: both are insomniacs, both have a wispy, wise innocence about them, and Hannah says she always identified with Morticia as a child. "She was such a graceful, sick, twisted and sexy mother." Of course, Morticia never lived in a tepee--which is where Hannah, who spells it tipi, spends a lot of time between movies. Those...
...small fraction of the high school class of 1998 is thinking of a career in the lucrative field of computer science, preferring business, education and health services. With a shortage of qualified computer workers for jobs that are expected to double in number by 2006, students would be wise to log on and make the grade...
...must report, comrades, that at the last possible moment, I betrayed the information revolution: I followed the traffic. That turned out to be a wise move. I subsequently consulted a paper map and can only conclude that the road I and my fellow travelers took hadn't been built when Big Book's database was created...