Word: accepter
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...those who choose to come.However, the recent rise in Native American admissions has been a long time in the making. Citing competition from other universities for a coveted group of talented Native American students, Banks says the battle for diversity will not be won until the admitted students accept Harvard’s offers. Some potential applicants “think that Harvard is a country club,” he said. “They do not realize that 70 percent of our students are on financial aid. They do not realize that the majority of our students come...
...have one just like this.”The proposed location is only about one mile away, situated near Shaw’s Supermarket and major bus routes. Though the site is currently under review, Charlesview Board members say it is the best one offered so far. If they accept Harvard’s offer, their plans will then come under review by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which will have to approve a zoning change and their plans before they can be built.When asked if she anticipated trouble sealing Boston’s go-ahead on the deal, Felicia Jacques...
...once she won, making the Planck award different from the Nobel Prize, for which contenders often promote themselves as candidates. “The first I heard about [my nomination],” she said, “was when they called me up to ask if I would accept...
...hand, I rage against the French for their unwillingness to change, to accept new ideas. On the other, I rather admire them. In a time of globalization, wherever I go I see the same shops, the same food chains and the same clothing, and yet the French want to maintain their distinctiveness. They don't want to be like everyone else, and for that maybe we should be thankful. France is itself, quite simply and stubbornly, even though McDonald's and office lunches have made some inroads. In the end, the resistance will lose the battle. Eventually the inexorable tide...
...creativity and is now a poet. The changes to Eurydice are the strongest aspect of the updated story. In addition to giving the myth a much-needed feminist boost, the two stories of Orpheus on Earth and Eurydice in Hades create a parallel structure—Eurydice comes to accept her reality and Orpheus rejects his, heightening the tension between the two characters, who don’t directly interact (except in scenes that take place in Orpheus’s imagination) until the final scene.Both characters have a sounding board and interlocutor who challenges them...