Word: understands
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...they will be the lawyers, the witnesses, and the jury," Ogletree said. "It's a way for them to understand the Constitution not only in principle but in practice as well. I think that helps them understand it better...
...floor freshman year that took six showers a day, for instance. I didn't see a need to berate him about his actions at the time, even though the constant steam was causing ceiling tiles to fall and toilet paper to become water-logged. I was able to understand that he somehow always needed...
...Council-ar Authority" Mitchell A. Orenstein strongly suggests that as an elected official I was wrong to seek to "represent the students in the final clubs as much as those who aren't" when the council discussed an anti-final clubs resolution on Sunday night. Simply unable to understand why I would be willing to listen to the viewpoints presented by such "a small minority of the College population," Orentein reminds me that, "Supposedly, in a democracy, the majority rules...
...representative democracy." In such a course he might someday stumble across Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and read the chapter entitled "What Tempers the Tyranny of the Majority of the United States." Should Mr. Orenstein attend a class to discuss this reading, he may begin to understand that one of the most immoral mistakes a legislator can ever make is to yield to popular passions on issues of prejudice or discrimination. To do so according to Tocqueville would be to promote one of the greatest "vices inherent to popular government...
...Children who respond to this write in a profound way," observes Miriam Kronish, the principal at Hillside. Best of all, "it's fun," says a Hillside fifth-grader and budding poet, Elizabeth Stone. "You can write what you want," she points out, and unlike too many other assignments, "you understand what you are writing about...