Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Officers brought together leaders from different realms of student life, but had no official representative capacity. The council should ask official leaders of all the student organizations to meet on a regular basis as an advisory body. The council can't champion every cause on campus, but it can learn valuable lessons from those...
This way, even if one does not agree with the sentiment of a prayer, one can accept it and learn from it in a historical-religious context. I reflected on this bit of wisdom from the rabbi several times that evening, and, by doing so, felt a strong sense of unity with many generations of Jews who had read the very same prayers over hundreds of years...
...sometimes the outcome is very bad. Some search for decades to no avail; others learn that their child has been abused, that their mother committed suicide or that they are the product of incest. Even a happy reunion can produce "an overwhelming feeling of anger and confusion, and rearrange everything in one's life," says Linda Brown, co-author of a forthcoming book on the subject, Birthbond...
...first axioms American reporters learn is that a fender bender on Main Street is bigger news than a train wreck in Pakistan. Just as Tip O'Neill crystallized electoral wisdom in his dictum "All politics is local," many editors seem to have concluded that all journalism should be local too. Reportage from distant places tends to be limited to the melodramatic and gauged by personal relevance: either the it-could-have-been-me human-interest factor or the larger-implications factor of how, although the news consumer was untouched by a particular event, similar ones in the future might have...
...things to all people. The makers of An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck's new action-adventure movie, need to learn this lesson. The film tries to follow too many tangential plot lines and loses the audience's attention in the process...