Word: acceptibility
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...grounds for serious concern. Harvard's commitment should be to undergraduates, and the University should make every effort to foster creativity among its students; the many dance groups on campus certainly will gain needed prominence with a mainstage slot. As owner of the Loeb Drama Center, Harvard should accept the Steering Committee's proposal and work to establish the fifth show. The dance performance in May would not mean fewer ART performances--the company's summer production would only be pushed back one week. The growing "space crunch" that Harvard is experiencing is forcing the University to reevaluate its priorities...
Global politics is, in a sense, coming to have the pluralism and diversity typical of politics in democratic countries--with one crucial difference. Democratic societies recognize and accept the people as the ultimate source of sovereignty and some government institutions, usually the legislature and courts, as the ultimate sources of authority. In the emerging global politics, however, state sovereignty and authority are withering, and no alternative, such as some system of world government, is about to fill the vacuum. The result is almost certain to be chaos. The basic issue for the next quarter-century is whether statesmen will have...
...Watching a musical requires a certain willing suspension of disbelief: real people don't actually burst into song or ham it up as much as people in musicals do and audience members accept that in exchange for snappy, sappy songs, witty dialogue and the sheer entertainment value...
...taken with the utmost concern for the afflicted, that they are taken, as Nachtwey says in his afterword, as "an appeal to the reader's best instincts-a spirit of generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and willingness to identify with others the refusal to accept the unacceptable...
...Friday. "But even if the legislation passes," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi, "a year from now when it's made clear that the war will restart as soon as the Americans leave because Slobodan Milosevic would love to get back in there, Congress will back down. The Europeans accept that Kosovo is ultimately their responsibility and are moving to run these operations themselves, but it'll be some time before they're able...