Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...based upon trying to be a detective when you're reading the book, but trying to really understand what you're reading," says Anand Acharya '99, who is taking the course this semester. "It's like using a whole new part of your brain that hasn't gotten any use at Harvard...
Requiring a cultural background as part of the minimal background introduces a cultural bias. Granted, this cultural bias is merely a perverse effect of an otherwise well-intended effort to make problems easier to understand, and this is not to say that professors shouldn't continue these efforts...
...ultimate goal is to understand how some countries came to have good governments," said Lopez-De-Silanes, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
...that may not even be there. Reacts with a prim wryness that hints at the Nazi's superiority, at Whale's indulgence. These lovely scenes give the audience a chance to study McKellen in wary repose. It's a face worth studying. A movie face, as Hollywood should soon understand...
This year's champions were not really Yankees. Yankees are Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Reggie Jackson. Yankees are guys who like nothing better than hitting home runs, except for talking about hitting home runs. Yankees don't understand strategy because they're too good, too lazy and too drunk to bother. Yankees don't steal bases, paint the corners or run out routine grounders. And Yankees never, ever avoid the media. Of his team, Torre says, "They all want to get the game-winning hit, but they don't want to talk about it." These aren't Yankees. These...