"I was thinking about race and stereotypes, and I started to think about how I could grapple with these ideas," he says.
There was no expectation that books could grapple with the urgent and evolving challenges of terrorism, racism and war.
Instead, we should move toward extensive written exams, in which students could grapple with literary passages and books they have read in class, along with assessments of students' reports and projects from throughout the year.
Banks don't have faith in other banks, investors are deeply scarred and wary, and nobody believes that the governments around the world could grapple with the magnitude of the problems, even if they wanted to.
You could grapple with the fact that people give more money as a starting offer to someone who appears to be father than someone who mentions that she's a mother.
It was, he said, something he could best grapple with on his own, however imperfectly.
He picked up things that the best in the army couldn't grapple with".
Sadly, without an influx of working capital, these practical and promising ideas that could systemically grapple with tough social concerns around the globe, plateau in their mezzanine phase and never realize their full potential.
Then again, it could also mean grappling with the fear of losing or leaving a long time job or career -- or losing or leaving a long time relationship to honor who we know ourselves to truly be.
