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...usually have approximate, living counterparts that Attenborough and his camera crews can pursue, as they snoop, like scientific paparazzi, on the private lives of all creatures great and small. Probably never has any program shown so many forms of courtship and copulation: millipedes writhing in combinations too complicated to comprehend, goggle-eyed newts climbing atop each other, fish defying the hazards of nature to bring sperm to egg, frogs singing hoarse epithalamiums in ponds and swamps. Only fast-flying swifts, which mate on the wing, seem able to escape the prying lens...
...HAVEN, Conn.--To fully comprehend Yale's 28-0 win over Harvard Saturday at the Yale Bowl, you have to look back...
Holland is apparently unable to comprehend her peculiar place in the international world of politics--too small to dictate independent foreign policy and too large to have its economic and political movements ignored. As a political entity Holland is a relatively young country, formed as a kingdom in 1848, but the Dutch have an ancient cultural and moral heritage which often causes them to be overly vocal. Holland's recent disasters have resulted directly from a lack of vision and planning in the Foreign Office. The new building for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, now under construction, seems to lack...
Still, I contend that the goal of full integration and eliminating prejudice must not be overlooked, both in the eyes of Blacks and whites. It seems as if the Class of 1985 does comprehend this goal, and I only hope that we, the upperclassmen, do not discourage them, or give them feelings of guilt by persuading them to break from their natural inclination to be color blind. Mustapha Khan...
...takes an extra step of understanding to realize that these attitudes have been produced by the apartheid system, which the majority of whites tacitly or overtly support. Instead of trying to comprehend, it is far easier for them to retreat into fear and prejudice...