Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior--on the brink of being admitted into the company of educated men and women--and there are still things that even I do not understand. This worries me. I have very little time left to make amends before I will be forced into a pathetic little life of misery and sadness, during which my peers will mock me mercilessly at every opportunity. You can always count on peers for that...
...congratulate Abigail McGanney for her eloquent and pithy article of last Saturday. With wit and elegance she champions the "experimental" cause in Harvard Theater, condemning the conservative elite and its oppressive, narrow-minded approach to the creative process. Her careful research helped her understand most of the intricate issues she brings together in her article. Her quotation of me, both accurate and in context, very successfully makes me look the fool...
...frankly do not understand McGanney's logic when she charges that we forbid reviews to keep our deceptive policies under cover. We stopped reviews to encourage creativity, to prevent such reviews as The Crimson's personally affrontive review of Brad Dalton's "experimental" Hamlet...
...help maintain American interests abroad. The K-School's mission is to study and help improve the operations of government. It would be foolish to maintain that the CIA has not acted objectionably in the past. But it has done so at the behest of leaders who failed to understand that America's interests abroad almost always fall with those on the side of "democracy." Professors Neustadt, May and Treverton can only help the CIA do its job of advising America's leaders where the interests of democracy...
...nearly a year to put the race in perspective and tell us what it all meant for American politics in the 1980's. They could have said a lot of things that daily reporters couldn't or didn't because they were too close to the race to understand...