Word: acceptant
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...exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures." It may be that this is where you can see and hear the workings of Bush's mental circuitry: where he has experience and knowledge and a sense of the players and the pressures they live with, he can accept the grays, forgive the weaknesses and stop short of applying his moral code. But where his background is not as deep, and those skills are in shorter supply, he is quicker to invoke absolute judgments and stick with them come what...
...world affairs, it makes cataclysms within regions more likely, as we have seen in the Middle East. When we act unilaterally in defiance of our allies, we increase the likelihood of the third and potentially most dangerous sort of war--between regions and even great powers. But if we accept the responsibility of organizing coalitions to fight a chronic, low-intensity war such as the one we are fighting against al-Qaeda, we make bigger conflicts less likely. Virtual states like al-Qaeda are the potential enemy of all because they are the neighbors...
...huge" man, 6 ft. 4 in. and more than 200 lbs. He refused to eat or drink anything, even water, odd behavior on a transatlantic flight that could last up to 10 hours. Jones had been cautioned by another flight attendant to be wary of passengers who didn't accept food on a long flight, so she asked the man three times if he wanted anything. "Usually I think, 'Yeah! Less work for me.' But something about him...seemed strange," she recalls...
...Nepal reeled in disbelief. The gruesome massacre of King Birendra, Queen Aiswarya and eight other members of the royal family traumatized the nation and left it struggling for an explanation. Was it the work of Maoist rebels? An attempted coup, perhaps? The truth would be harder for Nepal to accept?a privileged, trusted son had murdered his own family. Jonathan Gregson, a Calcutta-born journalist now based in London, was in Kathmandu in the weeks after the attack, running with a pack of foreign reporters who fought to tell the story. One by one the grieving eyewitnesses came forward...
...Socialists and other parties of the left must decide whether they can accept the market and reforms or revert to the doctrinaire social democracy of the 1980s," says Alain Duhamel, who co-authored the book in which Jospin spelled out his presidential platform. "If they choose to modernize, they may rally rather quickly. If they opt for antiquity, they'll lose moderate leftists without luring back voters they've already lost." With local, regional and European elections set for 2004, France's leftist parties must decide which direction they'll take if they hope to recover soon. How they...