Word: acceptibility
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Instead of attempting to evade his responsibilities by changing the laws after the fact, Lieberman should accept the burdens and risks of being a vice presidential candidate. Moreover, should Lieberman withdraw, it is likely that Connecticut's popular attorney general, Richard M. Blumenthal '67 would run in his place. Preliminary polls suggest Blumenthal, a former Crimson executive, would also defeat the Republican nominee. Lieberman's Senate career offers ample evidence that he can make difficult decisions based upon his convictions. In the next few weeks, we urge him to once again demonstrate his character by withdrawing from the Senate race...
With more and more applicants, schools have begun to accept greater numbers of students. And, as a consequence, these students must trek further and further from their home base...
...last point on all this drug business: Before the Games Frank Shorter - remember, the marathoner, now heading the new U.S. Anti-Doping Agency? Anyway, Frank Shorter told me that fans would accept a drug-free level, even if there were no world records set. I thought he was dreaming, but maybe he was right. Look at what happened in Sydney: Not one world record in an individual event, and it was one of the best meets ever. A thrilling meet...
...marched across Sydney Harbor Bridge in May calling for reconciliation with Aborigines--the largest political demonstration in the country's history. In August former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser called for a national apology for the "stolen generations." Prime Minister Howard answered that modern Australians "shouldn't be required to accept guilt and blame for past actions." Last month two Aborigines lost a court case in Darwin in which they sought compensation from the government for being removed from their families as children...
Republicans now admit that Bush's reluctance to accept the debates was a bona fide tactical error...