Word: acceptant
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...looking for a cause, but all of a sudden I am in the middle of one," she says. "I was asked to take part in a TV discussion to mark international women's day and was shocked that the Moroccan woman on the show would not accept that Islam oppresses women. I couldn't believe it. After all, Roman Catholics criticize the Pope. Why can't Muslims be critical about their faith? "It's possible for a woman to be emancipated and be a Muslim if she sticks to Islam as a spiritual belief," she continues. "But I reject...
...Fitr, the feast marking the end of Ramadan. The White House even persuaded Ariel Sharon to be conciliatory: Israel's Prime Minister offered the Palestinians a demilitarized state by 2005, encompassing parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. There was no chance Palestinians would accept such a deal, since it barred them from East Jerusalem. They rejected it, demanding Israel leave the West Bank and Gaza entirely. Still, it's the closest Sharon has ever come to making nice. See Also: Islam in Europe MIDDLE EAST Gaza Attack Ten people were killed in a gun battle when Israeli...
...same time, the U.S. hoped its tough tone would pre-empt any positive reaction to Iraq's appearance of cooperation, which might erode international readiness to take up arms against him. The White House is already worried the U.N. will accept a lower threshold of compliance than the U.S. The tough words also reflected the deep resistance lingering in some parts of the Administration to let inspections proceed...
...that we have nowhere to channel our legitimate gripes. We then feed off each others’ grievances, trying to one-up each other, until we are left with a boiling pot of self pity. Because we hear these exaggerated problems over and over without resolution, we come to accept them as truths, making our perception of Harvard much worse than reality. Our complaints become a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...disarmament process as the basis for such a war - allied support for an invasion, even from Britain, is heavily dependent on Iraq being shown to be in violation of disarmament requirements, and therefore presenting an intolerable threat to peace. But very few potential allies are willing to accept at face value U.S. claims about Saddam's programs. They want proof, which is why the inspectors were sent back. Only if Saddam refuses to cooperate with the inspectors, or if they turn up evidence of Iraqi deceit, will Washington find support at the UN for going...