They, and the politicians they were advising, seemed to have forgotten the wise remark of Sir Colin McColl, a former chief of MI6, that the most intelligence can provide is "cats' eyes in the dark".
Lesser minds than David Hume (and that's just about everybody) have focused mostly on the "tends to" part of that wise remark.
If some wise remark appears in your head and if it is considerably rude, then don't say it.
Eleanor clutches the literary magazine n+1; her mother (Isabelle Huppert), a French classical musician who gave up her career for parenthood, holds a glass of wine and makes rueful, worldly-wise remarks; her father (William Hurt), a shrink and an N.Y.U.
But the experience of working abroad will certainly be advantageous career-wise, remarks Tanaka, who will shortly return to Japan.
The White House would be more aggressive about responding to attacks on potential nominees, to avoid the kind of fracas that erupted over the "wise Latina" remarks by Ms. Sotomayor, then a federal appeals court judge.
Time to spare: Two weeks Goal: The confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Deadline: August 7, 2009 Complications: Some Republicans raised concerns that she would be a liberal "activist" on the bench, particularly after her "wise Latina" remarks became widely circulated.
And though Republicans pushed her into disowning her "wise Latina" remarks, the full texts of those speeches reveal an interesting generational shift between Judge Sotomayor and the women who preceded her, Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
