Word: understanding
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...protecting these insecure future lawyers’ right to speak. It is a sad day in America when those who typically advocate free speech want to silence any opposing view. This trend is becoming far too common and is making many in our country very uneasy. Intellectually honest people understand the importance for all perspectives to be included in any debate. That is, as long as those perspectives are based on logic and fact, not rhetoric and emotion. I believe the students who oppose Mr. Gilchrist formed their position on rhetoric and emotion. They are obviously ignorant about what...
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...people. To go to the New Yorker and get the editor I got were lucky breaks. I'm also lucky to be an outsider in America. A lot of what Americans take for granted I think of as strange and weird. I still don't feel like I fully understand this country. (See the 100 best novels of all time...
...balance between these two things. I remember once having a conversation with a top executive with the Toronto Raptors. I asked her about the stats revolution in basketball and she just kind of shrugged and said, "It's interesting, and we look at those things, but you have to understand that for our purposes, it's all [about] character." The thing that separates players is that some have a work ethic, some don't; some are coachable, some aren't; some party all night, some go to bed early. From her standpoint, it's all those intangibles...
...Thai military says that thousands of villagers have willingly come to the center, mostly for one-day trainings on the merits of organic agriculture using a bio-fertilizer promoted by King Bhumibol. "Even within the military, some people believe I am wasting my time because they do not understand Sufficiency Economy," says Pichet, after showing off the benefits of composting to a group of local businesspeople. "But I believe that once villagers here understand that we are trying to help them help themselves, more and more will come over to our side...