Word: acceptant
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...Kennedy—who is teaching a course at the Law School this semester about the election—wrote of his emotional engagement with this election. Kennedy relayed how Obama’s progressive politics have expanded the public consciousness to accept the possibility of a black president. And he wrote about how dejected he’d feel if the senator loses...
...effect. Maybe, just as Seth Rogen has replaced Harrison Ford as a romantic-movie lead, our comic-book-loving, viral-video-sharing culture is replacing the blow-dried Mitt Romneys with the Jew-froed Al Frankens. Of course, it's also possible that while our society is ready to accept a black President, it still clings to a treasured stereotype: that all black people are cool and all nerds are white...
...Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred general elections until after the war. And when one was finally held, in 1945, the British people promptly voted Churchill out of office. We need not only great leaders but also a public great enough to accept their leadership. M.L. Cross, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS...
...knew from Harvard,” she said. One such example is the last name of her freshman year roommate, which now serves as one of the names of a law firm in the show.Another nod to the real Harvard are the names of the three admissions officers who accept Elle into Harvard Law—Pforzheimer, Lowell, and Winthrop.The event also took on a lighter tone. Members of The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, dressed in drag as sorority sisters and Elle Woods, tested their Elle (David J. Andersson ’09) against Gulsvig in a series of challenges, including...
...Army and state police have largely put down the movement through force and through a strategy of persuading militants, often through their families, to surrender, re-enter "the mainstream" and accept financial assistance. Peace talks with ULFA broke down in 2006, and two battalions of the group have refused to surrender, setting up bases in neighboring Bangladesh and in Burma, intelligence officials say. P.K. Mishra, inspector general of the Border Security Force for the Assam & Meghalaya frontier, who spoke to TIME from his headquarters in the city, says he thinks the blasts are the work of the two ULFA battalions...