Word: explaining
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...That after all this is over, Al Gore - win or lose - is planning to buy 117 hours of prime time to explain, in terms we can understand, why he won or lost. And how he was right all along...
...your classmates caught in the crux of such a decision, take some time out and visit the career fair. Certainly, some students come to Harvard already interested in business, but that doesn't explain the legions of seniors who are dying to convince the McKinsey interviewer that they want nothing more out of life than to determine the market demand for riding lawnmowers in Belize--certainly I can't imagine that too many of us put that on the "career interests" section of our college applications. Nevertheless, each autumn, many seniors come to the realization that Belize's horticultural tendencies...
Only two areas can explain such a discrepancy: preparation and play calling. Both reflect upon the coaching staff, and a closer examination of recent defeats will highlight Harvard's deficiency in each area...
When I got home last Wednesday evening, my 10-year-old daughter asked me to explain what was happening. As we looked at the papers and TV, I told her she should soak it all in because she was witnessing a moment that would someday be part of her own children's history texts. At first she seemed worried by all the turmoil. I found myself saying that the surprising thing was that there was really no reason to worry. What was most amazing about that day, after people awoke to discover that our election had not produced a result...
...never gone out looking for anything," she says, speaking of the avalanche of adaptations and licensing. "It all comes to me." She volunteers this information to avoid the rap that she's exploiting Seuss and explains that by creating trademarks in various media, she's protecting her husband's creations. Yet some of Geisel's decisions, notably to publish some material that her notoriously perfectionist husband left unpublished, are difficult even for her to explain. "Because everyone out there wanted it," she says, "and because Random House wanted...