Word: explains
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...infamous Valentine's Day cover of a Hasidic Jewish man and a West Indian woman locked in mortal embrace. In some quarters, the cover was denounced as obscene. In truth, the only obscenity was to be found inside the issue, where the cover artist used several unnecessary lines to explain his work...
Harvard University police Lt. Larry Murphy's specialty is V.I.P. protection--which might explain his penchant for special treatment. Murphy, the acting chief of police and the leading contender within the force for the soon-to-be vacant chief post, is in charge of obtaining bus service for the University's Commencement and reunion activities--even if he doesn't actually sign the contract...
...Angeles, wants to know why the Navy's ban on homosexuals is still in place eight months after he declared it unconstitutional. He has instructed Defense Secretary Les Aspin, along with the Secretary of the Navy and the commanding officer of a Bay Area naval air station, to explain themselves in a court hearing this week or be held in contempt...
...stories of people who had lost their health insurance or faced a choice between medicine and food, Clinton asserted what a senior official described as "moral passion" and established that the cost of doing nothing will exceed the cost of change. White House officials admit that Clinton must still explain how the plan will be financed. But there is resistance to being too precise. "I would not assume that the public is going to want to know every detail," said a senior Administration official. "The public is far more interested, as far as we can tell, in knowing that...
...testimony last week moved some jurors to tears, as Lyle Menendez described how, when he was seven years old, he had been forced to perform oral sex on his father and later had been sodomized with a toothbrush. Lyle, now 24, and his brother Erik, 21, are seeking to explain why they burst into the television room of the family's $5 million Beverly Hills mansion on the night of Aug. 20, 1989, and killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, with 15 shotgun blasts, including two "contact" shots -- from guns pressed against the back of Jose's head...