Word: grasping
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...make for one of the better-rounded and experienced presidential teams in recent memory. The same cannot be said of Sarafa and Sundquist’s opponents—particularly Roy T. Willey IV ’09 and Nicholas B. Snow ’09—whose grasp of the realities and challenges of dealing with the administration is limited at best.Though it is their greatest strength, Sundquist and Sarafa’s student-government experience may well also prove a handicap. As insiders, Sundquist and Sarafa bring with them the insularity endemic to the UC.This is particularly...
...they decided to run for the top spots on the UC because the council’s current leadership has failed to grasp that the College needs a change in direction. According to Willey, the UC has not made any real progress that students care about. In fact, he says, the UC has lost ground by compromising with the College on the party fund and focusing on issues unimportant to the average student, such as foreign policy resolutions and lunches with administrators...
...here at Harvard, which has long prided itself on piercing the fog of the unenlightened past, this 124-year tradition maintains only a tenuous grasp on our collective imagination. While we certainly pay it lip service—even competing to outdo one another in antipathy toward Yale—the substance of the rivalry has long since eroded. For most, Harvard-Yale has become another mere excuse for collegiate revelry, which even the local authorities have recently conspired to expunge...
There's no shortage of advertisers trying to reach the Polish market. Banks, mobile-phone providers and companies like Western Union all seem to grasp the appeal of immigrant readers, many of whom are upwardly mobile and ready to show it with their wallets...
...more compelling fantasy than the slogans and clichés offered by any of the other campaigns. When you watch Colbert or Stewart’s satire of the political process they seem to recognize something very fundamental about the state of political discourse that no pandering politician can grasp...