Word: explains
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...affect how they are perceived. They would do well to enhance their role as a populist institution--'my paper' instead of 'that paper.' People who feel they have access to their local newspaper find newspapers more credible than those who don't. Newspapers should take more opportunity to explain why they do what they do, why it's sometimes necessary to make certain people unhappy to serve the interests of everyone...
Later, Ryan added, "In his smug silence, Demjanjuk is the Nazi mind, telling us something: I did it once, and got away with it. I won't explain how or why, for if I did, you might understand it a little better than you did before, and learn to recognize it when it rears its head again...
...deadly phasers and the mysterious "wormhole" -- a sort of magic tunnel through which space travelers can zip to distant galaxies. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is one series that isn't afraid of abstract theoretical concepts. In the show's premiere episode, Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) tried to explain the nature of linear time, the idea that the past influences the future. "That is the essence of linear existence," he said. "Each day affects the next...
That may help explain the series of rejections that followed. Clinton's first choice, Federal Appeals Court Judge Patricia Wald, declined the nomination, citing her age and reluctance to lose her pension benefits. The name of former Federal Judge Shirley Hufstedler was floated next. National Public Radio then reported that Washington lawyer Brooksley Born had been tapped. Baird and her husband first met the Clintons at an annual New Year's Renaissance Week at Hilton Head, South Carolina, some years earlier. But it wasn't until she was summoned late last year to Little Rock, initially to be vetted...
...between rich and poor does not fully explain New Haven's explosive mix. To the cauldron must also be added (as is true of Cambridge) a dwindling middle class of third and fourth generation Italians, many of whom trace their origins to the first stone masons of Yale...