Word: understandable
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Maybe we Harvard scholars are so erudite that we understand there actually is no problem. As Bill Gates testified in the Senate, competition in the software business is alive and well and innovation seems to be booming more than ever. Maybe, as David M. Weld wrote last November ("Booing Bill Gates," Nov. 18, 1997), people just like to pick on Microsoft merely because it's so successful, not because it's anti-competitive or evil. He points out that "We may need villains to root against as much as we need heroes to cheer...
...psychological research after their death. Even today, works on his enigmatic personality and his cursed career are best sellers everywhere. Some are good, others are less good, but all seem to respond to an authentic curiosity on the part of a public haunted by memory and the desire to understand...
...logic," Hitler was persuaded for a fairly long time that the German and British people had every reason to get along and divide up spheres of influence throughout the world. He did not understand British obstinacy in its resistance to his racial philosophy and to the practical ends it engendered...
...case, people will ask, what is it that Pope John Paul II uniquely brings to the millennium? Almost all who have experienced him at close quarters understand the special luminosity he radiates when surrounded live by a million people. But the great historical backdrop of his splendor fades. He was the student and manual laborer from Wadowice in Poland who became the first non-Italian Pope in 450 years. His was the dominant spiritual presence in the final round of the great revolutionary challenge that began soon after the turn of the century and sought no less than to alter...
...common--and easiest--organizing principle for nation builders. In the next century, conflagrations of apparent tribalism will not be set off by old ethnic rivalries as much as by contemporary political struggles--struggles that power-hungry leaders will use to inflame tensions among groups. Says Bizimana: "We have to understand that politics based on tribalism--as it is now in much of Africa--will lead inevitably to the same end: massacres and genocide. And that will deprive the continent of its most important resource: people...