Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand along with The Tasty andother restaurants--and this is not just a HarvardSquare phenomenon, don't get me wrong--but Iunderstand many restaurants have closed or areclosing," Skenderian says...
...stand by my previous writings and their cogency, my first end was not to persuade but rather to offend your sensibilities. For with offended sensibilities comes indignation and with indignation a desire to refute. But to refute an argument successfully, even or perhaps especially a contrarian argument, requires understanding. And if one attempts to understand a contrarian argument, one might even come to appreciate or agree with it. In a word, one might lose a prejudice...
Hence, I am a frank, but not a blind, contrarian. I have taken my lesson from the prudent Tocqueville: "I have tried to see not differently but further than any party." I have tried to understand the prejudices of all, while dogmatically accepting the prejudices of none. I have tried to educate myself and I hope I have educated in the process...
There was a moment last year when Letourneau had some time to start a journal for Audrey so that when the little girl is older, she can understand this mess. At that time, last summer, the future didn't look so bleak to Letourneau. She was still talking to her other four children, her "angels," even though they were moving to Alaska with their dad Steven. True, her lawyer, David Gehrke, was telling her she had to plead guilty to "rape of a child." Such a ridiculous charge, she thought. Why couldn't everyone realize that Vili had come...
...understand the current boom in prime-time news, it helps to go back to a notorious truck fire in November 1992. That was when Dateline NBC aired a segment in which an explosion was rigged to show the alleged safety problems in some General Motors trucks. It was an embarrassing black eye for the new program, but it prompted NBC to bring in a fresh executive producer, Neal Shapiro, who put the show on a winning road. Dateline spun stories off the day's news more often than its rivals (particularly on high-impact tabloid stories like O.J. Simpson...