Word: acceptant
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...bugs. When you write in Journal, the cursor drags ever so slightly behind the pen, so if you scribble too fast, your letters sometimes appear a second after you make the mark. In Microsoft's defense, this was an early version of the software. No one will accept handwriting software unless it feels just like handwriting, but Microsoft knows that and figures it has eight months to get it right...
...impressive not only by the standards of other Islamic countries but also by European lights. Turkey's liberalism is a legacy of the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, an aggressive secularist who gave women rights unprecedented in the Muslim world (even if he found it hard to accept women as equals in his own life). Last week the Turkish parliament went a step further by reforming family law. Previously, a man was the head of the household, able to make unilateral decisions concerning children. No more. The law also establishes community property in marriages and raises the marriageable...
...outdone, Justin Huggler of London's Independent found himself forced to accept the surrender of a Taliban commander from Kunduz. "He could not find anyone to surrender to. So we bundled him and his retinue of defecting Taliban into the back of our rented van and set off to find a local Northern Alliance commander." All hell broke loose when the convoy came under fire from the Taliban, and again when the defector refused to part with his rocket-propelled-grenade launcher in the chaotic clamor of surrendering Taliban and advancing (and retreating) Alliance fighters on the frontline...
...over Jerusalem? That is impossible, for Jerusalem belongs to nobody and everybody, and has to be shared. The full legal right for Palestinians to return to the Israel that they left in 1948, in the wake of the first Israeli-Arab war? Does any Palestinian really believe Israelis will accept demographic suicide? These painful recognitions must be accepted, for peace is impossible without compromises." Still, the paper urged Washington to reject Ariel Sharon's insistence that no talks could begin before seven days of calm have passed: "How can the absence of violence be a condition for negotiations, when...
...because many of the local warlords on whose support it had ridden to power simply switched sides. Some of the fighters currently besieging Kunduz as part of the Northern Alliance had been on the Taliban side ten days ago. And once battle is joined many of those inclined to accept a deal may be inclined to simply surrender, easing the Alliance's passage into the city...