Word: understand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point everyone needs to understand is that the other top Eastern teams had similar scores against the Western schools," Co-Captain Nick Branca said. "If you look at Brown, at UMass, at Navy, you'll see that we're playing at least as well as any other team in the East...
This misquote, the authors, say, is the fault of a reporter at the Baltimore Catholic Review, who confused the senator's statement that he did not understand why Harvard students were attracted to Keynsian economics and a later mention of the "value of college fraternities." The reporter apparently mistook the word "Keynsian" for "communism...
Then again, as Harry Hopkins never said, "The people are too dumb to understand...
Through these unpublished letters and Holmes' other notes, Novick is able to expose Holmes the person, and that in turn lets him shed light on the ideas of Holmes the judge. By understanding the factors and experiences that shaped Holmes' thought processes, it is easier to understand his theories, many of which are now part of the laws of the land...
GOLENBOCK'S allegations will raise some eyebrows, but it is his vivid characterizations that make the book work. There's Kevin Drummond, the serious, hard-working junior-college transfer who can't understand why Valvano picks on him instead of Charles Shackleford, the lazy, pot-smoking center...