Word: understood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expecting it to be a progressive haven, but found the legacy of apartheid a lot deeper than I'd ever imagined," Steil said. "There are a lot of challenges that I'd never understood before I got there...
Growing up, I never really understood apartheid. All that I knew was that it was a system that kept white people in power and black people in jail. I knew that it involved disenfranchisement and loss of civil and political rights. I knew that black people were beaten and sometimes killed, but as to any sort of legal or conceptual understanding, I was completely lost...
This onslaught of news is not mere coincidence. It is, in fact, a rarely understood law of nature--a kind of Harmonic Convergence. Every once in a great while, the emergence of an important news event generates so much energy that it actually produces more news, much as the appearance of a bus, after a lengthy wait, triggers the approach of four or five other buses immediately behind...
...hands and mouth. Ms. Lewinsky testified: "I believe he took a phone call... and so we moved from the hallway into the back office.... He put his hand down my pants and stimulated me manually in the genital area. While the President continued talking on the phone (Ms. Lewinsky understood that the caller was a Member of Congress or a Senator), she performed oral...
...dilemma--and by the injustice and risk that a more affluent couple could avoid by going to a state where abortions were legal. Though the consummate judge, Powell dealt with people as they were, not just as clients or employees or adversaries. He listened to all sides; he understood the theoretical as well as the practical; he knew that sometimes how one reached a decision was as important as the decision itself. He had the courage to face facts as they were, not as he would like them to be. And in that, Justice Powell represented the best we could...