Word: accepter
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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...
...Daschle last year partly on a promise that his G.O.P. connections would protect Ellsworth Air Force Base, is livid that it is on the closing list. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission has until Sept. 8 to approve or amend Rumsfeld's list, and Bush and Congress must accept or reject it by the end of the year. Until then, Thune has vowed to lead the congressional fight to delay the closings and may vote against key White House legislation--bringing new meaning to the election-year tactic of playing to your base. --By Douglas Waller
...value of evangelical activists to the G.O.P., this may be a moment when their conviction is as much a headache as a help. They are refusing to accept anything but total victory--namely, up or down majority votes in the Senate for all the nominees, which would almost certainly guarantee their confirmation. That position is making it very difficult for the two parties to achieve a face-saving compromise. Unless Democrats agree to allow floor votes on all the White House's nominees, Senate majority leader Bill Frist has threatened to use the Republican majority to prohibit judicial filibusters...
...Christopher Hill, a former ambassador to Seoul who now leads U.S. efforts to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, recently met over dinner with the editors of several South Korean online media organizations to try to bridge some of the gaps. One journalist asked why the U.S. didn't just accept that North Korea won't give up its weapons of mass destruction, and recognize the country as a nuclear power. Hill fired back, asking why the assembled journalists didn't write more about North Korean human-rights abuses. "It was a very heated debate," said a participant. "Things got pretty...
...always tempting to use that kind of power to squeeze out the competition. If Xbox 360 were to take over your media cabinet, would it play DVDs with Sony Pictures movies on them? Of course. But would it play songs from a Sony-owned online music store? Would it accept messages from AOL Instant Messenger? Would it network with a computer running Mac OSX and not Windows? If a platform is too open, you can't make money off it. Too closed, and nobody else uses it, and it withers away and dies...