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...they could. “We didn’t look towards the cafe, we rolled and ran, and got the hell out of there,” he said.Singh and his friend darted into the club they had initially planned to visit, and didn’t comprehend what they had witnessed for nearly 45 minutes. “We walked right into the club, it was pretty weird,” he said. They had a drink and when they came out of the club for a breather, the owners closed the club, leaving Singh and his friend...
...about the nearby camp, Elsa forbids Bruno to go exploring behind the house, and Bruno, of course, disobeys her instructions. During his exploration of the camp’s perimeter, he comes upon a boy, Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), sitting on the other side of the large electric fence.Unable to comprehend the gravity of Shmuel’s situation, Bruno is simply content to have found a playmate. Though Bruno is confused by Shmuel’s constant hunger and the strange “pajamas” he wears, the boys forge a fast friendship. Bruno brings Shmuel food smuggled...
...jokes rapidly, phones ring incessantly, and multiple characters talk over one another simultaneously. One might initially be confused and overwhelmed by the speed at which “The Front Page” progresses. Though the characters’ rapid and overlapping dialogue makes it difficult to fully comprehend their articulations, the production creates a glimpse of the fast-paced Chicago newsroom where you live fast or get left behind. The actors in this dialogue-driven play speak in an exaggerated Chicago accent peppered with vernacular street talk and wisecracks that are crass, rude, and even borderline vulgar. In keeping...
...When a country falls as rapidly as Zimbabwe has, it is absolutely necessary to hope that the country can rise just as improbably. Without hope, there will be no initiatives or efforts for improvement. As Harvard focuses on sustainability, students can hardly comprehend Zimbabwe, where there is so little to sustain. A main hospital in the nation’s capital, Harare Central, closed two weeks ago. In a country with 231 million percent inflation, a nurse cannot even buy a soda with her weekly paycheck, about 12 US cents. At the SADC summit, Tsvangirai warned that one million Zimbabweans...
...when the Canadian bank Toronto-Dominion got out of structured products, including CDOs and interest-rate derivatives, CEO Ed Clark was pilloried for leaving profit on the table. Clark, who has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, made the decision because he couldn't comprehend, to his satisfaction, the credit and equity products that were being traded at the firm. So he decided to quit the business--a move that kept his bank in the black while others suffered. "I'm an old-school banker," he later said. "I don't think you should do something you don't understand...