Word: acceptant
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...Brainwashed” is a tricky word, and in this case an Orwellian semantic ploy to rename aggressors as victims. By their sort of logic, every Islamic zealot captured in Afghanistan is a victim of brainwashing. Not surprisingly, the U.S. government doesn’t seem inclined to accept an insanity defense for al-Qaeda fanatics...
...yesterday afternoon, the compuer’s clock was set for Thursday, Feb. 7, 2036, and would accept electronic ballots through Feb. 9, 2036—corresponding...
...even ousted Hamas from some of its mosques. Later, the organizations appear to have negotiated a modus vivendi. While Hamas won't abandon terrorist actions against Israel, it has periodically agreed, for example, to refrain from sending suicide bombers into Israel for defined periods. While it refuses to accept the PA as an authority, it does accept Arafat's right to represent the Palestinian people internationally. And it shares his concern to avoid a Palestinian civil war, in which both sides argue Israel would be the real winner...
...prisoners. Literally. A couple of weeks ago, Rumsfeld said at a press conference that the U.S. military was not "in the position to have people surrender to us. If people try to, we are declining." Rumsfeld added that the U.S. did not have enough forces on the ground to accept prisoners and that the Northern Alliance should "make their own judgments on that." Most U.S. journalists seemed satisfied with the explanation. When CNN anchor Judy Woodruff came back on the screen after the press conference, she did not mention the no-surrender rule in her summary. The next...
...point of the Houses isn’t to make everyone feel comfortable. Sometimes, the point may be to make you feel uncomfortable, to force you to learn to live with and accept people whose ideas, beliefs, and values are different from your...