Word: understanding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...understand the principles of the country," Sauls drawled at Brace near the end. "Let's deal with the relevance to this case...
...greatest hope of this project and collaboration is that we can acknowledge our difference and at the same time creating relations and...facilitating reconciliation on the basis of our...common humanity and experience," he said. "We're not getting people to change their opinions, we just want people to understand why different people believe different things...
...sort of knee-jerk ballgame mentality that confirms 24-hour news's worst tendencies. But the visuals were beside the point: The verbal back-and-forth itself was not only riveting but a salutary thing for the whole polarized country to hear, even if most of us could understand one out of every three terms...
...understand the need to find an angle, and certainly the "heir-apparent" of the current council president provides one. However, that angle would have been better used later on, as a feature, rather than as a news story introducing a new campaign. A full seven paragraphs were devoted to the candidacy of Stephen N. Smith '02--his name is mentioned eight times--while Paul A. Gusmarino '02, the founder of "UC Books" (the council's biggest accomplishment in some time), has to wait until page A-5 to see his name in print, and then it's only mentioned twice...
...Night Shyamalan's native ground, and as he did in last year's coolly creepy sleeper The Sixth Sense, he uses it brilliantly. Nobody grounds the supernatural in the quotidian--especially the lower-middle-class variety, where the struggle to make the rent can equal the struggle to understand the unseen--more persuasively than Shyamalan does...