Word: comprehend
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...that's the full extent of writer-director Joe Carnahan's originality. And since he never bothers to establish why we should care about any of his characters, we just sit there numbly, awaiting the next sensation and trying, without notable success, to comprehend the preposterous backstory - dating back decades - with which it is lackadaisically equipped...
...National Security Adviser; 2) urged the naming of an independent counsel to investigate the affair; 3) supported congressional requests for special committees to look into the scandal; and 4) promised his Administration's full cooperation with investigators. "I can appreciate why some of these things are difficult to comprehend," he told his audience. "You're enti tled to have your questions answered...
...comprehend what it is like to be that woman. Do you appreciate the words and caresses of your distraught family while racked with frustration at your inability to reassure them that they are getting through? Or do you drift in a haze, springing to life with a concrete thought when a voice prods you, only to slip back into blankness? If we could experience this existence, would we prefer it to death? And if these questions have answers, would they change our policies toward unresponsive patients--making the Terri Schiavo case look like child's play...
...hope that the new “what it means to be human” requirement will become more than a vague addendum, and grow to comprehend a wide variety of courses from across Harvard that address ultimate questions of truth, meaning, and purpose. Faith traditions like Christianity have much to teach us in this regard, and should not be neglected in this new proposed component. Many Harvard classes, like Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris’ Moral Reasoning 54: “If There Is No God, All Is Permitted,” already take...
...with this whole new “no underage drinking” thing Harvard’s got going. I’m not even talking about not peeing in a field because the line for the Port-a-Potties is too long for your drunken bladder to comprehend. I’m saying, let’s not fall for any Yale pranks this year, folks. Alumni, I’m looking at you—no undergrads I know were part of that debacle two years ago. Shameful.7. A copy of Basic Vision (Snowden, et al). For those...