President Lawrence H. Summers of Harvard University, explaining remarks at an academic conference on Friday in Cambridge that suggested that innate differences between the sexes might explain why women do less well than men in mathematics and science careers, said yesterday that he had meant to be provocative.
Now we give the following example to explain Remark 3.1.
In another indication of the regional impact of the Syrian revolt, President Michel Suleiman of Lebanon asked Iran to explain remarks attributed to a senior Iranian commander that Tehran's powerful Revolutionary Guard has military advisers in Lebanon and Syria.
A day after he was forced to explain remarks he had made suggesting he was not fully supportive of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, Mr. Paul set off yet another round of Twitter, cable television and e-mail chatter by lambasting President Obama and his aides for insisting that BP be held accountable -- and pay -- for the oil spill cleanup and damage.
"I need to have him down there so I can take him around and show him some of that history," she said, reiterating her offer to give Mr. Obama a personal tour through Georgia and help explain remarks that were taken out of context by a conservative blogger and that led to her firing.
However, her admission of a "pathological alcohol problem" explained remarks from staff at the clinic where she had worked for just two weeks, who told investigators she was "not in a normal state" during the operation and was having difficulty "speaking, understanding and reacting".
Hos Sereythonh was asked to explain remarks accusing the Philippines and Vietnam of playing "dirty politics" over the issue of Asean and the South China Sea.
That is why I would like Mr. Bray-Ali to explain remarks he made on a YouTube video on March 9, 2008," Cedillo said.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, suggested bonus recipients commit suicide (later explaining his remark was "rhetoric").
The most common way of explaining Archytas' remark is to suppose that he is arguing that logistic is mathematically superior to geometry, in that certain proofs can only be completed by an appeal to logistic.
