Word: understandings
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...every other pundit opining about Obama's first year. To say Obama needs to show the people he gets their problems, as if we didn't think he does, is simplistic. Why do you think the majority of us still like him? He respects our intelligence and seems to understand that we appreciate the enormousness of the challenge he faces. Jan Hurd Poulsbo, Wash...
Like the tetragrammatic name of God, the moniker Jwoww has encoded in it everything you need to understand the world we live in today. The idea that an unknown 23-year-old from Long Island would come equipped with a tabloid-ready exclamatory nickname, like J. Lo or P. Diddy, might, in a more self-effacing era, have seemed presumptuous. Now it's just commonsense branding. If you might be on a reality show, you may as well have a name that pops and precedes you like a well-positioned set of silicone implants. (Oh, also: you should...
...Athlete to athlete, it’s easier to understand where someone’s coming from, even if you don’t know the sport,” Alemany says...
...Politics is a mixture of policy and personality,” Gergen said in an interview after the event. “If you don’t get the personal angle, you don’t understand what’s really happening...
...offering is a bill that the public really wants, there will be a price to pay for talking it to death. There will be a reason to actually try to work out the differences between the two sides. Even if the Democrats ultimately lose, the voters will at least understand what the fight was all about. And maybe, just maybe, the minority will think twice before they launch the next filibuster. (See the TIME/CNN series Broken Government...