Word: understands
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...Tired of Slumming It I am disappointed by the dismissal that many magazines, including TIME, have meted out to Indians offended by Slumdog Millionaire [March 9]. What the authors acclaiming the movie and dismissing the critics do not understand is that the movie does not demystify poverty, but rather misrepresents it. Poverty is indeed not ennobling, but it is also not the only context in which human misery, violence and degradation occurs. There are many other ways of dealing with poverty - many movies have done so with a more complex look; perhaps this one was successful because...
Turnbull added that Koh has the ability to understand the combined power of policy change and community action—which in the past led him to found MassCONECT, a project that aims to reduce cancer resource disparities in low income communities...
...little surprised when she told me to take off my clothes, since I wasn't wearing any clothes on my face. Narayan explained that clothes would get in the way of my bad energy's exit and keep me from being relaxed. She does not understand that the last time I felt relaxed while I was naked was at 9 months old. But lying there under a sheet in the dimly lit room, chimes going off around me, a hot lavender-scented towel on my face, I do feel sort of relaxed...
When he sings, "Why aren't you in the administration?/ Is there some kind of politicking that I don't understand?/I mean, Timothy Geithner is like some little weasel," his voice practically drips with despair - not unlike the despair Krugman recently felt about Tim Geithner's financial plan, come to think...
...precisely that mind-set, however natural it may be, that most needs challenging. It does not take any simplistic endorsement of the benefits of economic globalization to understand that we live in an interconnected world. It isn't just goods that move around the planet. The flow of people from one nation to another - people with all their myriad hopes and resentments - has been taking place on a scale never seen before. Prosperity does not solve everything, God knows, but the world will be a safer place if those who have recently escaped poverty are not now told by those...