Word: explained
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...PriceThe picture of two Afghan children wounded by a U.S. air strike that accompanied the article "Collateral Tragedies" Sept. 15 literally took my breath away-like a kick to the chest. I wonder if those in favor of our military actions could look into these children's eyes and explain to them why America is right to do this to them and their families. All the arguments in the world will never justify the fear and pain reflected in those children's faces. Kelly Czermerys, Hunter, New York...
...infighting of the past few years. Under Nelson Mandela, the ANC peerlessly wielded its moral authority. But that trait also encouraged leaders to think they were above reproach, an attitude that found its fullest expression in Mbeki, who often acted as if he had no reason to explain himself and simply asked people to take his decisions on trust. That trust wilted, thanks to ANC scandals over corruption, incompetence and abuse of power. The party is in no danger of losing power. But the days when it commanded widespread respect and spoke with purpose and clarity are long gone. After...
...jarring to hear Charlotte's power brokers explain that it's important to improve their city not for its own sake but for the sake of its businesses, which need high-quality culture to attract high-quality talent. But even if they sometimes make Charlotte sound like a New South wealth-generating machine that happens to contain people, their boosterism is producing real progress. Charlotte still has problems with smog, schools and sprawl, and a few condo projects have stalled in the credit crunch. But Charlotte's mix of climate, cheap housing, new urban amenities and old habits of materialism...
...pacing is flawless, and the trash level is just right. And One Fifth Avenue has other virtues that are harder to explain. It has an actual Weltanschauung--it gets at the deep truth of shallow people. Women control men with sex. Men control women with money. With rare exceptions, marriage is a Punch-and-Judy slugfest that ends with either divorce or one party's total subjugation. Power and pleasure are the only things that are real, and they endlessly swap places as means and end. Everybody in One Fifth Avenue, good and bad, is bound by these rules...
...Sciences 1a: “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences” each lost more than 50 students. (Ec 10 and Life Sciences 1a’s numbers still remain strong, having attracted 768 and 546 students respectively.) Though professors said it is still too early to explain the drop in students studying introductory economics, they suggested that it may be due to the current fragile state of the economy. “It’s really difficult to just take these classes and try to speculate on what’s going on there...