Word: accept
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...doing, Rice appeared to accept a more restrictive standard than Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been trying--so far in vain--to get an exemption for CIA officers in the legislation that Arizona Senator John McCain has pushed to ban torture and other inhumane treatment. A senior State Department official denied any rift between Rice and Cheney and insisted Rice was merely "clarifying existing policy." But two senior Administration officials interpreted Rice's increasingly pointed statements as a clear sign to the bureaucracy back home as well as to allies in Europe that her more sweeping restrictions were...
Doctrinally, however, the Apocrypha were a dead end in the Western church. Their creativity was a liability. The 4th century church father Jerome called them "deliria." Although Eastern Orthodoxy continues to accept Joseph's prior marriage and children, in the West, Jerome doubly secured Mary's virginity by proposing that Joseph too was a virgin and that Jesus' siblings were cousins, a view still held by most Roman Catholics. (Protestants eventually decided that Joseph and Mary did have additional children.) Church fathers debated earnestly over whether Mary and Joseph's union could actually be called a marriage (yes) and whether...
...only democracy that's at stake. So is Tsang's own future. Earlier this year the Chinese leadership replaced the ineffectual Tung Chee-hwa with the more competent Tsang, hoping his popularity could persuade Hong Kongers to accept a slower pace of democratization. As they grow increasingly frustrated with Beijing, however, they may come to direct their anger at a more accessible target: Tsang. (Massive street protests played a part in Tung's departure.) This would be bad for the city. Tsang does seem to have Hong Kong's best interests at heart. After the Dec. 4 demonstration, he remarked...
...we’re bothered by the elitism. Scene Magazine reflects an ugly side of Harvard, one we often ignore. It’s easy to discount the extravagance and elitism of our peers as simply a matter of personal taste or habit. It’s harder to accept pieces like “Not Quite Currier: the Living Space of Nathan Gunawan” (an article celebrating this individual’s ability to live in the Ritz-Carlton) and a 10-page Brooks Brothers photo shoot as characteristic of “the intricate culture that...
...before major policy decisions are made. If you want to fight wars, join the military; if you want to end war, go into politics.The question of military exceptionalism deserves more thought. Unlike most corporate law firms, the military must exist. But Congress shouldn’t force schools to accept a discriminatory institution just because the institution is necessary. HLS’s policy isn’t a statement about whether the military should exist; it’s a statement about discrimination. If the Catholic Church wanted to hire a group of straight Catholics to serve the poor...