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Unbelievable. That was the word on everyone's lips Saturday after Harvard basketball's latest setback, which dropped the team's record to 4-10 for the season. It hung over the silent Harvard locker room while the Crimson hoopsters tried to comprehend their 73-72 defeat, tried to fathom their monumental fold which brought a UConn team on the edge of extinction, down 18 points in the second half with their imposing center already fouled out of the game, to victory...
...rephrase this. In my opinion, the editors of TIME cannot possibly comprehend...
...China, the American public has been besieged by first-person accounts of their trips. There is, of course, a long history of such travelers' tales about China, starting with Marco Polo; the West doesn't seem to get tired of the genre, as if it were unable to comprehend the nature of Chinese society except from a personal viewpoint...
...Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Connery gives a gripping description of an average kid interested in cars and an electric guitar caught up in a situation he cannot comprehend. Reilly had always thought of the local police as friends and because of it never requested a lawyer's presence during his initial interrogation...
...Prize for Physics. While the scientific community applauded the award, the significance of his discoveries, for the most part, escaped the general public. Except for particular areas of research, such as possible cures for cancer, most scientists investigate such arcane aspects of general scientific problems that few laymen can comprehend the significance of their work. But recombinant DNA research, or gene splicing, associated with wild scenarios of two-headed monsters, has brought scientists and laymen together over the past three years to mull over the potential dangers of conducting such research. Scientists are straining for the opportunity to conduct experiments...