Word: comprehend
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...this week as you settle back to watch the Yankees and Mets slug it out for the title "Best Baseball Team in New York," think of the national teams Americans could be playing if they could only comprehend cricket. You could be competing against England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, The West Indies... Now THAT would be a World Series...
...early '90s, with time off (for him) to run for President, Buchanan and I were co-hosts of the CNN program Crossfire. A mentally handicapped friend of mine was a big fan of the show. (Don't snort. O.K., go ahead and snort.) My friend can't begin to comprehend a talk-show discussion, but his lack of comprehension allows him to see the underlying social dynamic more clearly than those of us whose vision is fogged by understanding. He said to me once, "Mike, is that guy Pat your boss?" And what is leadership if not bossiness? Buchanan...
...decade would normally have been about 70 in this part of Africa; as a result of AIDS it will plummet to 30. Said the Census Bureau's Karen Stanecki at last week's 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa: "It is hard to comprehend the mortality we will see in these countries...
...these views wildly miss the mark because no one view can begin to comprehend so large a man. In everything--talent, imagination, writing, indeed, curiosity--Jefferson was prodigious, Continental and, hence, supremely American...
Like Art Spiegelman's Maus, Sacco's book juxtaposes the pop style of comics with human tragedy, making the brutality of war all the more jarring. Though Sacco hasn't made the logistics of the conflict much easier to comprehend, his detailed, personal reporting does show how nationalism can lead once friendly neighbors to burn one another's houses. And even though his drawings don't offer the drama that superhero comic books deliver, their relentless flatness captures Bosnia more convincingly than photographs or Christiane Amanpour. "With a comic, you can drop the reader in there," says Sacco...