Word: accept
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MARRIAGE COUNSEL Cloistered from the TV cameras and delegates, John Kerry takes a final pause with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry before she leaves to sit in the family box. In less than 10 minutes, he will enter the arena of Boston's FleetCenter to accept the Democratic Party's nomination for President...
...confronted with a frightening plateful of leggy crustaceans unknown back in England. As he recounts in Gweilo (Doubleday; 342 pages), a memoir of his first three years in the former crown colony, a kindly naval officer briefed him on local customs: "Whenever someone offers you something to eat, accept it. That's being polite." Booth followed the advice, inhaling more exotic food, culture and adventure in those three years than most people manage in a lifetime. He eventually returned to Britain, worked as a truck driver, legal clerk, wine steward, English teacher and, only after he turned 40, a writer...
This leads to the Where’s Superwoman Theory. Without seeing women as leaders, society is hard-pressed to accept women’s leadership and young girls are left without heroines to emulate...
...there are not only scenarios but auteurs worth gambling on. We'll know soon enough whether Nakata and Shimizu flourish or perish in Tinseltown. But two changes can be expected. The U.S. remakes will streamline the original films' perplexing (and beguiling) ambiguity. And the heroines, who in Japan often accept their fate passively, will be morphed into righteous fighters...
...open last week. As riots rocked Gaza, parliamentarians threatened a hunger strike unless Arafat agreed to reform his corrupt administration and hand over control of the military to a new Prime Minister to replace Ahmed Qurei, who wants to resign. But so far Arafat has remained defiant, refusing to accept Qurei's resignation, accusing opponents of a conspiracy to shove him aside and denying that he will give up any power. "I'm not going to surrender," Arafat said in a meeting with Qurei, sources who were there told TIME. "I do what I want, and I know...