Word: understandably
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...Mohammed was not a journalist before his home city erupted in riots and he saw me, a frightened American kid being roughed up by a crowd of protesters. He yanked me away and guided me to safety. When I couldn’t understand people’s distressed cries in Arabic (which was most of the time), he translated. It’s still unclear what his motivation was for helping me, at such a high personal risk. He once vaguely suggested he was merely returning a favor, “When I was in America, someone helped...
...Since a number of Harvard students will be making decisions impacting climate change and other current concerns, Harris said, it is important for Gen Ed to “train intelligent laypeople” who would understand the basics of such matters...
Jason M. Scherer ’08, one of the five students honored in the ceremony, said he thought Faust’s remarks struck an appropriate balance, and that some attendees likely did not understand her references to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell...
...Lamont library, students learned about the working-class struggle through the words of Karl Marx, and perused Niall Ferguson’s “Empire” and Christopher A. Bayly’s “Birth of the Modern World” in order to understand the reality of imperialism. We students of the 21st century closed our books this spring having swallowed Michel Foucault’s philosophies of ethics and power, content that our comfort with social theory extends beyond “supply and demand” and into the realm...
...Pilbeam’s freshman seminar in 1982 and is now a professor with him in the Department of Anthropology, described Pilbeam as deeply compassionate in addition to being a highly distinguished academic.“He has the ability to cut through all the noise and chatter and understand what are the key issues and what are the key principles that guide decisions,” Lieberman said. “And he’s very good at dealing with people in a way that treats them with respect...it’s what makes him a phenomenal...