Word: explains
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...bites. The premise is that these quotidian details are crucial to a highly uncertain outcome. Immediately after the outcome is known, however, journalists start treating themselves and their customers to grander themes: the voters' message, the sweep of history and so on. The premise is that these larger forces explain what happened...
Republicans grew used to enjoying those little gold "history" stars rewarded after each election. By 1988 they had won five out of the past six presidential races, and could plausibly claim an unstoppable historical tailwind. Then came '92. This helps to explain the almost hysterical hatred of Bill Clinton by many Republicans and conservatives: he didn't just snatch an election from them; he punctured their claim to history. When the Republicans gained control of Congress in 1994 for the first time in decades, the victory was that much sweeter for restoring--with a vengeance--their momentarily lost sense...
Unable to explain the disappearance or trace the missing books, the library officials compiled a list of the missing items and gave it to Mederos last June...
...mention this requirement to any of the students involved. During this meeting, Mackay-Smith hinted to Colton and Braunstein that there was more to this case than I had revealed in my editorial, although she claimed that the University's policies on confidentiality did not allow her to explain the situation to them. Colton and Braunstein told me about their meeting, so I e-mailed Mackay-Smith, asking her to meet about the Ad Board decision and about these mysterious "other circumstances" about which Colton and Braunstein were concerned...
...response to my query about these "other circumstances" which she had earlier alluded to, she explained that she did not think I had focused enough in my editorial of October 21 on the college's stance that I was misusing college resources. (Braunstein and Colton had, understandably, both interpreted her comment as implying a factual omission.) I then asked her whether the Ad Board had the right to punish legal, non-academic behavior, she replied that it did. When I asked her to explain this prerogative, she said that because I was a member of the Harvard community...