Word: understands
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...Ohio Congressman came as something of a shock. In a conversation secretly videotaped by a Columbus television station last November, Republican Donald Lukens talked with Anna Coffman, an unemployed widow, in a fast-food restaurant about his relationship with the woman's daughter, now 17. "I couldn't understand a man in your position, why you're messin' around with these teenagers," said Coffman. Replied Lukens, who turns 58 this week: "I didn't really know she was a teenager. I do now, of course...
...Sharfstein is concerned, and offended, by the increasing number of citizens who are stepping forward as advocates of the rights of all animals. To his mind, the term animal rights is an oxymoron, because animals "are not part of any group who can understand morality, can reason, can conceive of its own existence or can fully comprehend pain." Leaving aside the years of close observation of animals by wildlife researchers that have proved such statements untrue, there is a fundamental question Mr. Sharfstein, in his concern for mankind's comfort, is ignoring about our future: can the interests...
This same allegation frequently comes from the staunch Republican power-types who are a bit disappointed when their fellow "fascist ally" (yours truly) seems to jump off the conservative bandwagon and join the liberal enemy when it counts most--at the dinner table. They can't understand why a so-called conservative would argue for things like the feminist critique of male-dominated society or the need to genuinely address and not simply pay lip service to the increasing social inequality of our nation, as manifested in the festering inner-city, the plagued family farm and the inhabited park bench...
...disagree with the notion that the Great Books are the only way to really understand the most important elements of a liberal education, of which ethics is a part," Bok said...
...This certainly isn't the ideal situation," said Salvatore Albano (D-Somerville), the Senate chair of the Committee on Education. "But we're faced with serious fiscal problems. We have to understand that these are tough times, and everybody has to share...