Word: accepter
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...areas not regarding race, we accept this fact without question. As a general rule, the standards for appropriate self-criticism are different from those for acceptable criticism of others. I may think that my mother is cruel, controlling, and manipulative—I might even say as much—but if you diss my family, it is still offensive. As John Lennon once quipped, “I can knock The Beatles, but don’t let Mick Jagger knock them...
Suchde seemed hesitant to accept the rules at first, saying in an e-mail that he suggested “altering the bet to make it a ‘fair match.’” I gave him a final chance to back out, but I had only stoked the fire in the belly of a dragon...
...start a small business that you can handle as a student, then when you get out, you know you can do it,” he says.Ruml was impressed by the winners’ development strategy, particularly their willingness to put their unfinished site on the Web and accept feedback from early users.“I think that their approach of telling everyone is exactly the right way to do it,” says Ruml. “The idea of keeping it a secret is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard...
...educational luminary that supposedly encourages the pursuit of “veritas,” Harvard’s Faculty should liberalize the pass-fail option by mandating concentration credit policy for pass-fail courses in all departments. Departments should accept any relevant courses for concentration credit—whether those courses are letter-graded or not—with the exception of foundational or introductory courses. Right now, the risk-taking it was meant to encourage remains limited purely to students’ electives, and has little impact on our serious academic pursuits, which all count towards the tyrannical...
...encounter in Sharm will be more of a lecture than an exchange, with the U.S. berating Iran over arms and fighters crossing into Iraq, the actions of militias and so on. Iran is not likely to be moved by those charges, which it routinely denies, nor does it accept lectures from U.S. leaders...