Word: acceptant
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...Jordan is not coming back as a business move. He's doing it because he misses being Michael Jordan; because he hasn't figured out who else to be; because no one, not even Michael Jordan, can gracefully accept his mortality; because it's just not fair to be a young man of 38 and have your life's work taken from you. And despite reason, despite the counterpull of the immortality of history, it's just hard to stop playing basketball...
...mail not sent directly to your address. But that ends up junking a lot of useful stuff--such as the discussions on my journalism-school alumni e-mail list. AOL can turn away mail from anyone not flagged as a friend, but part of my job is to accept correspondence from strangers--like you, dear reader...
...Jordan is not coming back as a business move. He's doing it because he misses being Michael Jordan; because he hasn't figured out who else to be; because no one, not even Michael Jordan, can gracefully accept his mortality; because it's just not fair to be a young man of 38 and have your life's work taken from you. And despite reason, despite the counterpull of the immortality of history, it's just hard to stop playing basketball...
While Gates had been in the country to accept the honorary degree from the University of Benin, the honorary citizenship was totally unexpected, according to the professor...
...special tour filled with 22-to-26-year-old male Oxford students who had jaunted over to the States on holiday and were in desperate need of a guided stroll around fair Harvard. Instead I got, and still get, the belligerent mother of two who won’t accept the fact that there is no super secret formula for admission to the College, or the frantic Hungarian businessman who just didn’t realize that Cambridge was so crowded during the summer and is willing to pay big bucks for two nights in a Wigglesworth dorm...