Word: acceptibility
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President Alberto Fujimori's decision to accept a runoff election has walked his country back from the brink, but he's no quitter - and that suggests Peru may be in for a turbulent couple of months. The runoff was announced late Wednesday after electoral officials reported that Fujimori had narrowly failed to achieve a majority in a poll tainted by charges of vote-rigging. But that announcement may be a reflection that the president has been feeling foreign and domestic pressure over charges that he was stealing the election...
...that Fujimori was coming under a barrage of criticism and warnings of dire consequences if he claimed a first-round victory," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "He came under considerable pressure from the United States, the European Union and the Organization of American States to accept a second-round runoff in light of widespread allegations of electoral fraud. And there were tens of thousands of people in the streets of Peru's major cities, vowing to fight any attempt to claim a first-round victory...
Lawrence Lessig--a prominent expert on Internet law who advised the judge in the recent Microsoft antitrust trial--announced last week that he will leave his post as Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School to accept a tenured professorship at Stanford Law School...
Lessig, who has been on leave for this academic year, was out of the country yesterday. But he wrote in an e-mail message that he decided to accept a position at Stanford in order to be closer to his wife...
...heard all the arguments for a new stadium, and I've come to accept them. It's long overdue, and the benefits for everyone who loves baseball should probably outweigh the nostalgic value of old Fenway. But even though I try, I can't let go. I passed the Save Fenway display in the window of Cambridge Trust on the way to the T and immediately began to miss the dusty tunnels and cramped seating in the ballpark. Obstructed view seats suddenly seem as if they overlook a scenic panorama. Even the dilapidated sign commemorating Roger Clemens two twenty-strikeout...