Word: explaining
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...numerous. He describes a party that he attended with some of his female friends. Inevitably the discussion turned to relationships and the male gender. After one woman turned to him and said, "The problem is that all men are assholes," it dawned on him that he was tired of explaining why men were not "assholes, slobs, selfish or insensitive." He began to make a joke out of the situation. Seeing the women laugh, it occurred to him that the best way that he could explain the differences between the sexes was to turn them into comedy. He insists that "when...
...midst of the trajectory of your education here have a responsibility to help us explain this phenomenon to the public," he said...
Rudenstine's efforts on this issue achieved national prominence when he authored his 1995 President's Report on the history of diversity in higher education, a document which explored the thoughts of such disparate authors as John Stuart Mill and Henry Adams, Class of 1858, to explain the profound importance of a diverse environment on the development of the mind...
...while the perception that Giuliani has made the city a safer and more prosperous place might explain his lead in the polls, it does not explain the remarkable lack of interest in the race itself. For a variety of reasons-some intellectual, some titillating-this election undoubtedly has the potential to arouse New Yorkers out of their unusual political slumber...
Ogletree asked the panelists to explain their almost uniformly negative stance on Clinton in their columns...