Word: understanding
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...legal restriction on a student's access to the Harvard network would be a serious problem. Harvard cannot insulate its students from the consequences of copyright infringement, and students should understand that they proceed at their own risk when they download copyrighted music...
...People think--oh, they're poor, we should help," Argaw says. "But there is nothing that prepares me, when I go deep inside, to understand the life of the woman who was married when she was 15, came here with her children and started working...
...understand why Yale, Stanford and West Point surpassed Harvard in the American Rhodes competition, look no further than the process by which Harvard selects its candidates for the award. While well-meaning, Harvard's Rhodes endorsement competition, carried out by the college and administered by the Office of Career Services (OCS), consistently denies qualified candidates university endorsement, as Gerson himself and the Warden of Rhodes House noted on a recent visit. Even though college officials moved to address Gerson's concerns by raising the number of endorsements by 21 percent this year, so many clearly qualified candidates remained...
...over semi-old media. When the decision in Bush v. Gore II came down from the Supreme Court - literally, it was run down the steps by panting lackeys to the news networks' stand-up reporters - we learned the limitations of instant information: The information's only instant if you understand what it means...
...Justices who knew what it was to look at an electoral process and its officers, and wince. Al Gore got only his chance for a graceful exit and his bogeymen, from a Court split three and a half ways but plenty clear-cut in the dissent for Democrats to understand who was on their side. And the decision - decisions, really - were such a buzzing, conflicted horde that Gore didn't concede, and Bush didn't celebrate, because there was a lot of deciphering to do first. The nation will get its split-screen versions after the two candidates...