Word: acceptibility
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...some of the earlier games in the season was an inability to channel that energy and maintain our focus even when we got down. Against Yale, the defense was able to control the game in the last 10 minutes, and our defensive players just remained vocal and refused to accept the possibility that we might lose the game...
...classic devices in situation comedy—and some tragedy—is for a character’s solution to a simple problem to prove worse than the problem itself. Rather than accept the consequences of a mistake, the hero comes up with a solution that makes things worse, until things escalate into a climax either with hilarious consequences, or catastrophe, depending on the genre. Either way, it’s becoming a familiar script for this White House, which now routinely embarrasses itself not just by making the wrong choices, but by refusing to face them later...
...that Georgetown must place on its athletic programs in order to maintain its status as an academic institution. But something tells me that coming from Princeton, Thompson has developed a skill for recruiting and getting the most out of the types of athletes that Georgetown would be inclined to accept...
Last month, when Hillary Clinton came to Boston to accept an award at the John F. Kennedy Library, she sought out some face time with O’Mary, who had done some advance for the event. Clinton hadn’t forgotten his days on her staff, and she also knew what he’d been up to more recently. She wanted O’Mary to tell her: what had gone wrong in the Dean campaign...
When the bad news came, O’Mary was with Dean, piling into a luxury bus named Aretha, after the soul singer who had once used it. As the political consultants and managers frantically tried to figure out what Dean should say to accept his caucus defeat, O’Mary was already on the next step, pacing back and forth with his cell phone...