He learned decent Hebrew here, much of it in the hospital after his accident.
By the time they learn enough to do a decent technical support job, they move off to nearby big cities to better paid jobs in the IT industry.
We know that his war buddies became lifelong friends, and we learn a decent amount about his work as a counterintelligence officer.
It can mean freedom to learn in decent schools and universities.
Learning a decent chunk of a foreign language?
Charlesworth uses these two apparent opposites -- a timid Nazi boy, a bold Jewish girl -- as a way of exploring what good people have in common and how innocents learn to be decent in a world swarming with evil.
Any American administration, especially this one, needs to learn that in paying "decent respect to the opinions of mankind" -- Jefferson's phrase -- America also pays respect to its better self.
I'd love to go to Brazil, in the same way I'd love to go paragliding, or learn how to make decent pastry: it's another entry on the list of things I've never done that I'd quite like to do one day.
