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...there is nothing left to explain, and that people who are looking for some extra ingredient are just confused. Some concede that sentience is still a mystery but expect that an unborn genius will someday explain it to us. Still others suspect that the brain did not evolve to grasp the answer, any more than it can visualize what came before the Big Bang or the shape of a curved 4-D universe...
This year, however, has the potential to change the trend. On the Republican side, Bush came out of his primary battle with Arizona Sen. John S. McCain appearing extremely frail in several areas, most notably foreign policy. Whereas McCain had a clear and coherent grasp of geopolitics, Bush was badly bruised by failing his hot spot pop quiz. In the primary race, Bush claimed to have extensive international relations experience with Mexico. This may, however, ring hollow in a general election against a two-term vice president who has spent the last eight years personally dealing with the very leaders...
Perhaps the most vivid image left over from the murder of Kayla Rolland is a basically benign one: a six-year-old boy sitting at a table, drawing pictures. That he did this only hours after killing Kayla has been taken to mean that he didn't grasp the gravity of his act and so is not criminally culpable...
...Shirt: She has this pink-and-green or black-over-the-white, tight long sleeved shirt. I almost wanted to touch it and feel it because it was silky--it is colorful and made of a lot of materials. It shows her ability to grasp a large amount of things and put it all together...
...free will comes from society--from our culture and nurture. By this reasoning, freedom equals the parts of our nature not determined by our genes, a sort of flower that blooms after our genes have done their tyrannical worst. We can rise above our genetic determinism, they insist, and grasp that mystic flower, freedom...