Word: relenting
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...doctors have urged him to begin taking antiretrovirals, which are affordable for someone in Achmat's economic bracket. But he refuses to take the drugs until they're available to all South African AIDS patients through the public health system. Friends and colleagues have urged him to relent, because he's too important to the campaign. He almost did last year - but balked at the last minute, unable to take advantage of the privileges that attach to his middle-class position in a society where almost all AIDS sufferers are doomed by their poverty...
However, having been rather hard on the man, I am going to relent a little bit. He does occasionally stumble upon an interesting insight concerning the authors he skims through, although none of these insights are given enough space to be anything more than pretty observations. His prose style is also extremely pretty, although it only occasionally comes to the fore, obscured mostly by his somewhat cloudy scholarly assertions...
...rhetoric is bound to increase in coming days as House Councils push their Masters to relent on the issue. (The Undergraduate Council's head honcho for UKA, Todd E. Plants '01, tells me he's confident students will win eventually.) But Masters needn't despair. Drunk students who misbehave will still be properly disciplined by HUPD and the ad board. And, if Masters want to express that they disapprove of students' early morning behavior, they will always have that easiest of options: They can tell...
...tries to lead an honest life raising horses, the "traps"--police constables--keep persecuting and trumping up charges against him. Finally, he learns, they plan to track down and kill him. Ned, his younger brother Dan and two confederates ambush the ambushers and strike first: "Events continued without relent Dear God Jesus it were a sorry...
Harvard did not relent in the second half as Crosby and Bazylewicz each had easy goals and the Crimson sent DarTmouth packing in the fourth quarter with two more strikes...