Word: comprehendingly
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What made last week's school tragedy harder to comprehend was its inexplicable nature. Why this school? Why these kids? Ikeda Elementary is a competitive preparatory school where kindergartners take entrance exams and interview for the coveted 688 spots. Their parents are Japan's educated elite. The school occupies a spacious, leafy campus in a wealthy neighborhood...
What Erik achieved is hard for a sighted person to comprehend. What do we compare it with? How do we relate to it? Do we put on a blindfold and go hiking? That's silly, Erik maintains, because when a sighted person loses his vision, he is terrified and disoriented. And Erik is clearly neither of those things. Perhaps the point is really that there is no way to put what Erik has done in perspective because no one has ever done anything like it. It is a unique achievement, one that in the truest sense pushes the limits...
...What Erik achieved is hard for a sighted person to comprehend. What do we compare it with? How do we relate to it? Do we put on a blindfold and go hiking? That's silly, Erik maintains, because when a sighted person loses his vision, he is terrified and disoriented. And Erik is clearly neither of those things. Perhaps the point is really that there is no way to put what Erik has done in perspective because no one has ever done anything like it. It is a unique achievement, one that in the truest sense pushes the limits...
...What made last week's tragedy so hard to comprehend was the young age of its victims. Why this school? Why these kids? Ikeda Elementary School, affiliated with a teacher-training college, Osaka Kyoiku University, is a competitive preparatory school where kindergartners take entrance exams and interview for the coveted 688 spots. Their parents are Japan's educated Elite?doctors, lawyers, professionals?and the school is located on a spacious, leafy campus in a quiet neighborhood. Graduates often eventually go on to enroll in top universities. "If it were a person who had something specific against the school, maybe...
...waged against him by the ?lite classes. It was potentially rousing material, but the former movie star's delivery failed him. He was still wearing his trademark white wristband adorned with the presidential seal, but his swagger was gone. He looked defeated and confused, as if he couldn't comprehend these latest events. "Not even in my dreams did I think this could happen," he told a local television station. His widely disseminated mug shots showed the man once adored by a nation losing spirit, frame by frame. His sinking eyes seemed...