Word: understandings
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Students who write will better understand what they read, and students who read will, in turn, write better. Especially in college, where students are supposed to be able to spend their time investigating new or special interests, limits on creative departments can be a serious barrier to education. The College already has one thriving creative concentration--Visual and Environmental Studies--that has proved to be both popular and successful...
...experts, this year was a civics lesson. We're constitutional scholars now. The irony of this seamy scandal is that it forced us to return to First Principles, to passages of a dusty Constitution we rarely have occasion to consult in the normal course of events. We came to understand the concrete value of abstract concepts like majority rule, the workings of justice, the difference between fact and speculation, and the peaceful mechanisms the framers devised for settling mortal arguments that drive other countries' armies into the streets...
DEBORAH TANNEN, who gained a national following with her book You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, this week examines the cultural fallout from the trial of the President. "What's happened to President Clinton is just an extreme example of forces in our society that have been troubling me anyway," says Tannen. "An adversarial culture has sprouted up, and the trial was the apex of that...
...flashing lights where other cars have been pulled over and the drivers have been hauled out and thrown to the ground and flogged and their right foot, the accelerator foot, has been cut off by a policeman with an ax. This is the Republican position on impeachment as I understand it. And I agree that watching miscreant drivers hopping around with blood dripping from their stumps would make me slow down, no doubt about it. It certainly seems to work in Singapore...
...convicted felon," the woman raped byElster said in the interview with Perspective. "Ifear for my safety if he's back in the Bostonarea, and I can't understand why they want aconvicted felon to call himself a Harvard student,which he is still able...