Word: understanding
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Although I voted for the term bill increase, I cannot understand why a student newspaper would endorse a decision by a Harvard administrator to override the conclusion of a student referendum. There are very few aspects of Harvard life on which student opinions are sought, and even fewer on which students or their representatives may cast a vote. Why disenfranchise students further by ignoring their votes when they go the "wrong...
...love," North explains, "like The Tennis Court Oath." The 1962 collection presents a mishmash of generally incomprehensible image fragments intended to reflect the experience of everyday consciousness. "Harold Bloom sort of dismissed The Tennis Court Oath as John getting through to the real stuff that Harold Bloom can understand. I think it's fair to say that, as poets, we don't really think about critics. We assume from the start that there are certain people that will get what's going on, but we don't have terribly high expectations for the academic audience...
Race plays a central role in the way that America has come to understand the current Middle East crisis. But the role that race plays is often hard to see. It can be hard work to uncover these ideas, but it is important that we do so because we cannot let these ideas distort our perception of conflicts in other parts of the world...
...Arab race, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is an independence struggle between a stateless people and a vastly superior occupying army--not unlike the conflict between Tibet and China. Palestinians are frustrated because they are too weak to win back their freedom. Yet for the most part Americans don't understand why the Palestinians lash out at the Israelis. The reason that Americans don't understand is that they see the Palestinians as part of a hostile mob of Arabs that vastly outnumbers the Israelis. This gives them a distorted picture of who has the power in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict...
...session, Chief Justice Wells asked each attorney to explain why the contest case rested in the court's jurisdiction at all. After Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed the recount deadline decision back to Florida's high court, asking for "clarification," it's not hard to understand why Florida's judges might be a bit wary of overstepping their bounds on this case - especially since a ruling against Bush would almost certainly remand their opinion right back under the critical eyes of the nation's top judges...