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...happen to us." Well, yes. Beyond that, there is the question of whether this is a work of the darkest evil imaginable or a more or less random act of malice and greed gone awry. Random violence cannot be dealt with as a practical matter, but it can be comprehended. Evil on this scale is impossible to comprehend. To know who murdered JonBenet Ramsey is to know what world we live in, where...
...game was over and the Crimson was suddenly dead. Players and fans alike stood in shock trying to comprehend how Harvard could have lost a marathon game they thoroughly dominated. The scoreboard read 2-1, but might have easily been 7-1 in favor of the loser...
Perhaps the Web is not a better teacher than experience; after skimming the NRA's web site I know more about the organization, but ironically I understand less. This is the way of the world, I guess. There are some things we can never comprehend, no matter how hard we try. I wonder if the Michigan Militia has a home page...
...University from a Vietcong sneak attack" and the council's political slicksters opting under a hypothetical transplant to "communist" China "to curry favor with the butchers of Beijing." This is how out there the Peninsula is, how so removed it is from the modern political scene that it cannot comprehend the fundamentally conservative policies of the United States in the 1990s. Perhaps these reactionaries would prefer to have lived during the 1960s so at least they would have had something legitimate to rail against...
...tell just what Johnathan had done to draw the punishment, since school officials refused to talk about details of the incident, citing privacy laws in disciplinary matters. But school-district spokeswoman Jane Martin asserted that "this kiss was unwelcome," and added, "We know that children at that age cannot comprehend sexual harassment. We teach them what is welcome behavior and that everyone should report behavior that is unwelcome...