Word: understood
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...figure it out. There?s something in your mind that?s still resonating. It?s almost like you want to talk to a shrink, where ideas come tumbling out. I wanted to write about this because I didn?t quite understand it. And in the writing, it would be understood. Somehow. Because there IS no figuring it out - except poetically, metaphorically, through language, through feeling. And that search serves the book...
...Harvard would like to be perceived as a social partner but [administrators] don't want to have their hands tied in any way," Galluccio said in June. "I don't think they've listened or really understood the advantages of developing a partnership with the city...
...This positivity went on and on. Who knew that cleaning bathrooms at school was so popular? I understood that Dorm Crew was a nice option for students who needed the money. But I always considered it by far the most distasteful job on campus, hence the fact that it is one of the highest paid despite its flexible hours and its lack of required skills and training. After all, who wants to clean up someone's dirty toilet seat and then have to sit next to him or her in section...
...years people have accused Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of running a brutal and authoritarian government right out of a dictator's textbook. But last week Fujimori's regime morphed from a monolith into a weird, militarized soap opera, and it seemed no one, perhaps not even Fujimori, understood how the plot was unfolding. Was the President still running the show? Was he resigning, as he suddenly promised? Would he, as he declared, really clean up the thuggish security apparatus that had done so much to blacken his administration's name? Would the nation's powerful military back him or revolt...
Napster, insists Aydar, could not have been written by a team, nor could it have been written by anyone 21 or older. "Shawn could focus on problem solving--and there was no one to tell him he couldn't do these things. There was no one who ever really understood what he was doing. He didn't even understand the legal issues involved. It was such a cool idea that he never once stopped, never really came...