I hope Kimmel hosts the Oscars at some point, because he understands a fundamental point about the gig: You have to entertain everyone -- not just the people in the room, and not just the people at home.
Like his rejection of the Paris climate deal, Mr Trump opposed the Iranian nuclear deal not because he understood the details and consequences of a complex agreement's terms but because he wanted, scandalously, to signal that former US president Barack Obama did not necessarily have US interests at heart when he negotiated the agreement.
But I long ago forgot most of what Latin I ever learned, and more recently most of what Portuguese I ever knew; my reading Italian (which was all I had) was never anything but laborious and uncertain". The translations were never laborious nor uncertain, perhaps because he understood that a translation had to become a new poem in English.
"But he said the situation was odd because he understood that a charity would want to put people in others' shoes.
In 2010, President Obama made a commitment to double the number of college graduates by 2020 because he understood that a post-secondary education is essential to preparing Americans for the jobs of the future.
Kenneth Branagh sent me a nice note, because he understood, he's an actor.
They called him "Professor," because he almost always had a book with him, because he used big words and was curious about words unfamiliar to him, because he understood there was a larger world beyond baseball, much though he loved the game.
Immediately you could see this kid's eyes light up because he understood, this wasn't just a dusty old object - it had lived.
"I think President Abbas came here despite great misgivings and pressure from the other side, because he understood the window for creating a Palestinian state is closing," Mr. Obama said.
