Word: understand
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...never expected that people would get as worked up over Jon Corzine as they did over Barack Obama,” Lam said. “But I also think that it’s important for progressives to understand that you can’t just win one presidential election and have Obama wave a magic wand and make everything better...
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer once wrote, “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” After my life in the South and my education here at Harvard, I think he has the first part backward...
...don’t understand why our kids are not coming out with a competitive edge. It is definitely not the budget. It has to be the administration; it has to be the teachers; it has to be the committee,” said Saundra Granjin, a mother of five Cambridge Public School graduates. “They have to find a way to boost these kids’ confidence and get them more involved,” she added...
...alumni and other philanthropists should understand that, in times like these, Harvard has a very real need for resources to fund what in better days might have seemed like basic components of the collegiate experience. As unglamorous or as impersonal as giving unrestricted funds may seem, we hope the Harvard donor network understands the gravity of the university’s current situation...
That said, we understand the hesitations that donors may have in giving money to Harvard for no clearly specified reason. Regardless of one’s opinion of the Harvard Management Corporation, the university no longer has a golden reputation when it comes to managing money effectively. The university should therefore strive for transparency with regard to both its budget and in how it will allocate these unrestricted funds—if not to reveal the details of how they will be spent, then at least to ensure donors that they will be spent wisely...