Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finn should be in a position to know. A South Boston native, or "Southie" as she puts it, Finn says, "Throughout my four years at school I've seen the Harvard community not truly understand South Boston. It's a very tight-knit community--people pull for each other--and that can have advantages and disadvantages. Either way, I just wish more Harvard people could see what it's really like...
...while the author's concerns on this front are justifiable, it's hard to understand why he repeatedly implied that women inevitably must have sex and get pregnant. The author completely ignored the simple fact that a woman gets pregnant when two adults have sex, an act from which both women and men are usually free to restrain...
...physicist added that he believed thattoday's politicians need to understand better theimportance of technology in today's world...
...precisely that demand which University of Chicago philosopher Alan Bloom could not understand when he appeared at Harvard earlier this semester. The irony of his attack on relativism is that he encourages us to ignore morality. For him, every demand from a minority group is an attempt to seek power. He refuses to accept that it might be a request for compassion, and beyond that, a plea for self-assessment...
...chairman of the department of mathematics and science education at Columbia University Teachers College, calls this foe the "major untouched educational issue of the decade." Science writer Martin Gardner (The Relativity Explosion) finds it a "problem that is getting worse and worse." Its name: innumeracy, or the inability to understand numbers and their meaning...