Word: understands
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Richard Dunne, executive director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis in Manhattan, takes issue with Caplan. "I don't think researchers understand at a feeling level the predicament of a dying person who hears of something promising," he says. "Human beings have a right to make their own choices...
...half of it, recalling the cautious voice of Baltimore Coach Weeb Ewbank that Johnny Unitas never heeded in the Colt-Giant sudden-death championship game of 1958. Elway completed his 20-yd. pass to Mark Jackson, and another of 5 yds. for the touchdown. In terms a Giant can understand, pro football had a new standard for closing flourishes. No less an authority than Dallas' Tom Landry, New York's defensive coach in that legendary loss 29 years ago, says...
...shall liberate this country." A.N.C. leaders later told her to stop making such statements, and at the group's 75th anniversary celebration in Lusaka two weeks ago, A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo declared, "Of course we are not in favor of necklacing. We don't like necklacing, but we understand its origins. It originated from the extremes to which people were provoked by the unspeakable brutalities of the apartheid system...
...Intelligence Agency denied the allegations. For State Department officials responsible for monitoring the war and managing the U.S.'s relations with its allies in the Middle East, the charges were yet another headache in the laborious process of maintaining a policy that is increasingly difficult to defend -- or even understand...
Indeed, the Pope turned down Jaruzelski's offer to restore diplomatic relations with the Vatican and brought up Poland's human rights record. But Jaruzelski pronounced the meeting at least a partial success. Said he: "Two Poles must always understand each other...