Word: accept
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...Then-University President Lawrence H. Summers announced the University’s plans to accept displaced students as visiting students in a Sept. 2 letter to the Harvard community, and the College ultimately enrolled 36 students—10 freshmen, 11 sophomores, four juniors, and 11 seniors from Tulane, Xavier, and Loyola Universities—according to a College-wide letter from then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...time of the International AIDS Conference in 2000, thousands of South Africans were no longer willing to accept the paralyzing silence. Huge crowds filled the streets of Durban demanding that the public, their government, and the nations of the developed world open their eyes to the gruesome toll that the pandemic was taking. Besides the sheer number of people rallying for change, the most striking thing about these demonstrators was the T-shirts they wore, which read “HIV POSITIVE” in bold, purple lettering...
...project so cheaply stemmed from the fact that she does not yet have to sustain herself through her professional income. “I’m a student, I’m learning the trade and because of that I’m willing to accept a lower fee,” said Ye, who added that she was aiming for a “toned down, conservative look” for the UC site. Part of Ye’s duties, beyond the redesign of the site, include coding it anew to allow for further development...
...sorties into international airspace, testing powerful new weaponry, and allegedly dropping a missile or two on the Western-leaning country of Georgia. The tension over a U.S. missile shield program based in Eastern Europe also promises to continue. For Peskov, the contentiousness lies in the West's inability to accept Russia's new strength. "It's always better to keep your competition down. The whole global affair is a competition," he said. "It has to be a fair competition. And Russia is ready to take part... Of course, not everybody is welcoming a new competitor...
...Hamas, which runs the cordoned-off territory. Rice will reiterate this distinction on Thursday when she meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Advisers to the Palestinian leader told TIME that despite his feud with Hamas following its ouster of his own militia in Gaza, Abbas cannot publicly accept Israel's turning the lights off on those of his countrymen unlucky enough to live in Gaza. Such an action would also make it even more difficult to persuade already wavering Arab states to attend President Bush's proposed November peace conference with Israel...