Word: understand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are students who are far smarter, more productive and more deserving than I. At first I was bitter (after all, by pretending that no one is less qualified we make it harder on people who end up realizing that they are less qualified). But I've come to understand that it is not a bad thing to accept that other people are better in some way (or even in every way). The trick (and it's an awfully hard trick to pull off) is to accept this without giving up trying to be as productive...
...this is the type of council the student body wants, then the council's new leaders should understand this desire and act on it. However, everyone should understand that a council aimed solely at more input in College decisions will take many years and many council leaders...
...night on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In our house, the tube-to-people ratio is a hefty 3:2. I have the same respect for television that an avid deer hunter has for guns--in order to appreciate the pull of the medium, I think you first have to understand its firepower. But when a typical adolescent is putting in the equivalent of almost a full day at the office in front of the tube, I say we're into serious overkill...
...with technology stocks is stale. Very stale. You've got good company in Warren Buffett, another totemic technophobe. And I'm not saying to load up exclusively on tech stocks. But it's plain silly to encourage plain folks to avoid them. They're not that difficult to understand. If you can figure out Maytag, you can handle Dell...
...doesn't know how to value them, and Lynch glibly confessed to thousands more at a fund-industry conference that he doesn't know how to turn on a computer. Lynch's point, as ever a good one, was that you shouldn't own what you don't understand--most things tech, in his case...