Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also private help -- though not nearly enough -- for kids at the other end of the socioeconomic ruler. Some poor and minority students are lucky enough to get advice from a nonprofit group like Aspira of America, where their special needs are recognized. Parents of these students "really don't understand how to help their kids pursue their education, let alone help them complete the forms," says Aida Sanchez-Romano, executive director of Aspira's Chicago branch. The organization stands ready to help its former students who call on it during the tough first year of college life...
...older generation owe to young people not the fulfillment of dreams but honesty. We must help younger people to understand why it is vital to keep memories alive. We want to help them to accept historical truth soberly, not one-sidedly, without taking refuge in utopian doctrines, but also without moral arrogance. From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we must not imagine that we are quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger...
...live in Dunster where the food in highly edible," says Kristin A. Gilbertson '87. "But a 21-meal system is a little inefficient and unfair to someone like myself who may not eat as much." She adds, "I can understand their wanting to preserve the house system, but it seems as though some type of point plan could be worked...
...DOING THE LECTURE CIRCUIT: "Everything you do in conjunction with photography that is not making photographs diminishes one's real business. [Lecturing] is not the business of making art. I'm realistic enough to understand that and I want to do it. But it doesn't help me with the next photograph...
Revering men like Lincoln ensures that the American people will forever be up to the challenge of republican self-government in his speeches, we come to understand the nobility of the American project, that of conceiving a nation in liberty...