Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game set. The Big Red, which finished near the bottom of the Ivies last season, going 7-13 in the league and 13-26 overall, look to avoid another season sweep at the hands of the Crimson. Cornell is clearly not a premier team, but Harvard's players understand that there is no such thing as a sure...
...perfectly understand that one of the parameters for whether to stay or leave is the ultimate probability of tenure," Knowles said...
...understand in many fields the number oftenure opportunities in the nation is relativelysmall, and so I must understand when a juniorcolleague grasps one of those relatively smallopportunities," Knowles said
...fact remains: too many Harvard students are unconcerned about Europe. Perhaps their indifference stems from fear of the unknown, fear of admitting ignorance and learning from it, fear of a continent that for centuries Americans regarded with awe. Perhaps it stems from simply not making an effort to understand Europe...
...very obvious. You can't understand Chineseculture--you can't understand any culture--withoutknowing about food patterns, etiquette, systems.There are certain cultures where food isparamount, like in Italy, France and in China. TheChinese are absolutely preoccupied with food. In aplace like China you learn very early that it'salmost more important to know how to behaveproperly, that you know the etiquette. when you goto a banquet, you have to learn never to sit downanywhere until they force you into a seat, becauseof the hierarchical arrangement of positioning ofguests. I made a lot of mistakes early on that Ifeel horrible when...