Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hart started the question again. "Why is it," he asked, "that the people of this country understand what is really important, but the politicians and the press do not?" Then he sounded a familiar theme. "The political process in this country is destroying its leadership," he said...
...last Tuesday morning, even as 250 reporters and cameramen flocked to the steps of the New Hampshire State House, there was an air of incredulity. Gary Hart is a professional; he has run for President before; he should know the taboos and totems of the trade. Didn't he understand that in the unwritten rules of political engagement there is a codicil that bars from the presidency any married man who has made a fool of himself in public with a 29-year-old model? What about his September promise not to hover around the other six candidates like "some...
...with whom he traded inside information, faced Judge Lasker last week in a final hearing before sentencing. Once Wall Street's most aggressive speculator in takeover stocks, Boesky was a picture of contrition in court. "I am deeply ashamed," he said. "I have spent the last year trying to understand how I veered off course." Boesky's lawyer pointed out that the defendant has been pursuing rabbinical studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, near Columbia University, and working under an assumed name at a project to aid the homeless run by Manhattan's Cathedral Church of St. John...
...fairly exhausting experience, like a slog toward a receding horizon across the plowed clay fields that are Kiefer's favorite landscape. His canvases are huge in size and engulfing in scale; he is, one notes, one of the few artists around who really do understand the scale of images and do not paint big just to look important...
...that if he could choose his epitaph, it would be, "He educated his people." He wasn't talking about the need to spend more money on the public school system. He was referring to how "the President himself must become the nation's first teacher to help our people understand some very tough problems and how together we can solve them." Such are noble sentiments, no doubt. Before Gary Hart can teach us anything, though, he needs to learn a few lessons himself...