Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 20 years, Tibet's exiled leader, Tenzin Gyatso, 54, has been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. His nonviolent Buddhist philosophy and advocacy of a peaceful approach to determining Tibet's future would seem to make the 14th Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") a natural for the honor. So when the Nobel Committee in Oslo finally named him the winner of the $445,000 cash award last week, the question was not "Why him?" but "Why now?" Surely the choice of the Dalai Lama, who has been living in India since he fled Chinese occupation forces...
...other gadgets that feed data into computers. His goal is to discover what really happens while an athlete is in action, and to use that knowledge to improve performance. An example: although Braden is a foremost advocate of top spin in tennis, he has proved, contrary to conventional wisdom, that tennis players who roll their racquets "over" the ball to impart top spin not only waste energy but also unnecessarily risk "tennis elbow." His high-speed film shows that the ball is in contact with the strings for only four milliseconds and is well...
This way, even if one does not agree with the sentiment of a prayer, one can accept it and learn from it in a historical-religious context. I reflected on this bit of wisdom from the rabbi several times that evening, and, by doing so, felt a strong sense of unity with many generations of Jews who had read the very same prayers over hundreds of years...
...conventional wisdom is that this year's council will succumb to such political frustration and primarily focus on "student services." Accordingly, one candidate in last week's elections advertised that, if elected, he would not waste time on the "hip issues" ("final clubs and ROTC") but would rather emphasize "the issues that really affect...
CONVENTIONAL wisdom has been known to be wrong, and in this case, the conventional wisdom on the council is deeply flawed. The belief that the council is going to shift its attention from politics to student services assumes what is simply not true: that there is a clear distinction between political issues and service issues...