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...think that if more people could read, write and comprehend, then many of our problems could end,” she said...

Author: By Katherine M. Dimengo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former First Lady Teaches ‘Life’s Lessons’ | 9/20/2002 | See Source »

...have it; Louise Buzzelli, the addressee on the letter, would have to come. It was a simple misunderstanding--an officer had found bills in Louise's name inside the briefcase and assumed it was hers. But the incident gave Pasquale the uncomfortable sense that the city couldn't quite comprehend that he was alive. "This is me! I'm right here," he said, clutching a newspaper clipping about his survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Survivor: A Miracle's Cost | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...some football skills. For some inexplicable reason, the World Cup brings to the surface character aspects buried in the most atavistic nooks of a nation's psyche. Some people will say that this is all psychobabble and hackneyed, but for me it is more like Taoism - trying to comprehend the empty space at the center of the wheel that makes the World Cup go round. Really. It's there, somewhere, but we can't see it, so we talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cup: Why Some Teams Just Can't Win | 6/28/2002 | See Source »

...word "feel", which she gives an extra erotic syllable. She perches on him, humming him senseless with "St. Louis Woman," then sashays off for her rendezvous with comeuppance. At her death, her huge eyes still glow, as if she were - for once, and at last - a child trying to comprehend her life's sentence trapped in a woman's curves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Basic Black | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

...earn during the year is a drop in the proverbial bucket). I cannot value Harvard (although guilt is a great motivator) simply because it is a financial burden for my parents. That one-step removal from actual earning is a substantial one; at nine, I could not comprehend that my coat represented hours of labor to my mother, nor at 22 can I fully grasp the many years of saving—some before I was born—that went into my college fund...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: The Value of Education | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

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