Word: insightfulness
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Even with a few hours' perspective on the game, Harvard's 2-1 loss remains puzzling. A glance at the box score, for one, provides little insight into the Crimson's stunning defeat...
...realizing more and more is that while these are all noble pursuits, there is so much more. Committing myself to public service has helped me to keep in touch with matters beyond Harvard Yard. And I believe that my work with CHANCE has given me much more insight than I could have ever received in any class at Harvard...
...school's cafeteria a monthly dinner discussion dedicated to making its way through the book a chapter at a time. Instead of the academics and rabbis who were his usual conversation partners, however, he stocked the group with an interfaith roster of fiction writers, hoping they might have insight into human character if not into Midrash. "If I could make the patriarchs sacred again," he says, "maybe I could make some sense of my own life...
Still, Stewart is not a completely satisfying charcter. Ladd doesn't give enough insight or background for the reader to become familiar with her. The character is presented from a sterile distance, so that the reader has a vague idea of her, but little understanding. One of the most traumatic scenes, the moment that Stewart miscarries, is ended simply with the phrase "I had lost a part of myself". While this may be true, the reader needs more. What part of herself, and how did that feel? The reader is left to fill in the blanks...
...reach any substantial agreement. From the sidelines Dole criticized Clinton's "photo-op foreign policy." And then (you guessed it) Dole jetted in from the campaign trail for a 15-minute photo-op of his own with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Afterward, Dole served up this not so penetrating insight: "The most important objective ... is to end the violence. We can stand clearly in support of [the] peaceful resolution of differences," but "the U.S. cannot impose a solution...