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...truth before we read it in the papers that our mother had committed suicide. Because up until then, he had always told us she died of pneumonia. I asked him once, "Why did you do that?" He said, "What do you tell a three-year-old who doesn't understand?" And he said, "Once having told a three-year-old something that they could cope with at the time, how do you determine the age at which you tell them the truth? Every year would go by and I'd say, could I tell them now? It was because...
...Trying to understand the people who live in neighborhoods makes good planning sense, especially because solutions to local problems can depend on more than building design, according to Toni L. Griffin, who co-teaches the GSD course with Stockard and has worked on planning initiatives in Washington...
...Much of planning has this kind of God-like view from above,” said Jonathan Schifferes, a graduate student in the course. “This was very much trying to understand people as well as places...
...nineteen states that have recently announced that they are moving, or considering moving, their presidential primaries up several months to February 5, effectively creating a national primary. The Democratic and Republican nominees will be crowned two months ahead of last year’s schedule. Though we understand the desire of many states—especially large ones—to have more say in the process of choosing nominees, they are making the wrong decision in moving their primaries forward. Their selfish decisions not only disenfranchise smaller states, but they vitiate the entire electoral process. We hope that...
...says Scales, a historian and former head of the Army War College. "Given the nature and character of this war, I think he's being a bit more measured overseas." He adds: "Military medicine and soldier care are things that are pretty easy to understand. But when you get into the complexities of a counterinsurgency, even those who are the old hands at it have trouble trying to understand...