Word: explained
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...talking about every sport? Does that include crew? Fencing? How many minorities play on the hockey team? How many working-class students are recruited to play lacrosse? (Fitzsimmons told a Crimson reporter, "I think you know which sports we're talking about.") How does ethnic and socioeconomic diversity explain the excusal of academic deficiencies among legacies, who presumably come from some of the nation's most prosperous families...
...Bush has acknowledged, his attempts to explain U.S. policy have been less than brilliant. But there has been a hard core of convincing rationale in what he has said from the beginning. Immediately after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, Bush stated that if the aggression is allowed to "stand," it will invite more such outrages around the world and give Saddam an unacceptable degree of control over the lifeblood of the world economy. (To denigrate the importance of oil with talk of "cheap gas" is itself a cheap debating tactic.) From the very day of the invasion, the explicit objective...
...from 14% in 1986 and 11% in 1982. Wilder calls these figures "alarming" and speculates that some blacks shared antitax sentiments with many middle-class whites. As both a black Democrat and a fiscal conservative, Wilder believes he is well positioned to lure the defecting voters back. That may explain why his political adviser, Paul Goldman, has registered a new PAC with the Federal Election Commission that can easily evolve into a fund-raising vehicle for a ^ Wilder presidential campaign. While that nomination strikes political insiders as most unlikely, speculation about a Veep candidacy is turning serious...
...makes up for. In the script's soap-opera view of life, sexual passion and jealousy drive even political revolutions. And there are echoes of the worst musical of the 1980s, the Shroud of Turin howler Into the Light, in the finale: red-and-gold-robed chorines try to explain the Asian religious concept of karma in lines seemingly lifted from a Southern California bumper sticker ("Karma is the way you never die"). One leaves the theater wondering if those Shinto priests read the script...
Minus: I am inevitably asked to talk to the child (one row ahead) and explain the importance of listening to one's parents. Once, a mother asked me to tell her daughter to drink her apple juice. "Your mom wants you to drink your apple juice," I said. "Who the hell are you?" she responded...