Word: learnedness
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The road to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and elsewhere is long and difficult. But that road, albeit the one less traveled by, is the only one worth taking. Violence begets only violence, as Arafat should have learned by now. Such gunboat diplomacy is a sad...
But the even deeper fact of sarcasm is that it gives the reader some measure of interest and opens writing up to interpretation—a side effect unknown to funereal earnestness. Whether the readers laugh, nod or wring out angry letters to the editor, they have learned something about...
“I’m begging you, pass this now. By next year, another group of kids will slip through,” said Emma Lang, a junior at CRLS. Lang attended a private elementary school with little socioeconomic diversity and says she learned “how...
But they may have also learned a lot about the economy since then, and not just that the downturn started on Clinton's watch. They've learned that business cycles happen, and recoveries take time, and they've noticed that Wall Street doesn't seem to worried about whether Congress...
It was tempting to say that Sept. 11 changed all that, just as it is tempting to say that every hero needs a villain, and goodness needs evil as its grinding stone. But try looking a widow in the eye and talking about all the good that has come of...