Word: comprehendible
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...came to bring his friend Joan Didion's book The Year of Magical Thinking to Broadway. (The kids know that their "new" friend, Ms. Redgrave, was the star of his play.) Rudin tries to translate the profound emotions from that play into language the children can comprehend, comparing the main character's grief at the death of her husband to the pain children feel at the death of a pet. "Nothing is done at random," says Andes. "All our guest have significant ties to each other. We make connections...
...during the violent earthquake in China's Sichuan province, which will leave an estimated 4.8 million people homeless, Chinese authorities said today. But while the workers have left the site of the three-story building in the village of Juyuan, neighbors and parents still gather here to try to comprehend why the children who went off to class Monday disappeared under tons of broken concrete. Some scramble over the debris, searching for any reminders of the dead. Others stand in the muddy, trash-filled lot and discuss the tragedy with a tone that drifts between sadness and rage...
...were an American voter] would you support Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton? -Mustafa Yildirim, Adiyaman, TurkeyI find American politics quite hard to comprehend exactly how they work. Most Americans do, especially with this whole Florida and redo and all the rest of it-so complicated. I just about got my head around it. And also it's quite hard for Europeans to really understand the power of the President. The president has so much power, much more power than our prime minister does, for example. I would love to vote for all of them, quite honestly, or not vote...
...outsiders comprehend the scope of the additional demands of varsity athletics in the Ivy League as compared to other extra-curricular activities—the early morning lift sessions, the entire weekends devoted to far-flung tournaments—especially in an environment primarily focused on academics. Jeffrey H. Orleans was one of those few. As the executive director of the Ivy League athletic conference, Orleans was not merely well meaning in his wariness of the potential encroachment of athletics into university priorities—most notably his opposition to participation in the national football postseason?...
...There was some of that, of course. Gates was a mite schoolmasterly, expressing concern that "many people on this Continent may not comprehend the magnitude of the direct threat to European security" from violent Islamic extremism. Some comments in Germany after his speech - Gates has been involved in a very public effort to persuade the German government to boost its contribution to the NATO force in Afghanistan and post troops to the dangerous south of the country as well as the north and west - showed the world-weary hauteur that Americans have come to expect from some Europeans. "The superpower...