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...elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility--but he also retained his humanity. Late in his career he wrote an eloquently spare letter to a white New Orleans journalist who had abused him in print: "I wish you could comprehend how unfair and un-American it is for the accident of birth to make such a difference...
...police acknowledged that they do not themselves fully comprehend fully the criteria for the different categories. "At this point I do not completely understand the distinction," Dillon said...
...time really be divided into neatly defined decades? More likely it is for historical neatness's sake that we stuff trends into boxes, like books shelved by the Dewey decimal system, so that we can comprehend the world and categorize its contents. And yet Dylan's career divides easily into decades: the folk ingenue of the '60s, fresh-faced from Hibbing, Minn., drawing from Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Woody Guthrie, busting with old blues, freshly learned folk songs and rock-fueled new ideas he was on the verge of unleashing. Then the folk-rock mystery rebel...
...large events that happen in an instant, like the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, leaving everyone to grope for some explanation of how a whole world of certainties can be undone so quickly. Everywhere that Diana's name is known, which is most places, people are trying to comprehend the events that led to her death and wishing they could reach back somehow to change them--to fend off the paparazzi, maybe to find a different driver for Diana's car, or even just to buckle her seat belt...
...soul, find truth, find the meaning, find God. All religions seek to lead people through these searches to the ultimate answer. Unfortunately, along the way many religions, including Mormonism, have fallen prey to the "God in a box" syndrome--explanations that reduce the infinite to what mortal minds can comprehend and, possibly, equal. They can call this religion, but spirituality or faith, never! NANCY SIGLER Laguna Niguel, Calif...