Word: acceptibility
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...years after IRRIRA was passed, Cambodia refused to accept the deportees, believing that they would be a burden on an already burdened country. Following the Vietnam War, the U.S. accepted tens of thousands of refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, granting them asylum and permanent residency. Laos and Vietnam still won't accept deportees from the U.S., but in 2002 Phnom Penh gave in as U.S. government pressure mounted. Roland Eng, Cambodia's former ambassador to the U.S., told American journalist Ron Gluckman last year that the U.S. threatened Cambodia: "The U.S. told us that there would be no more...
...case to go to trial as soon as next February. The SEC could instead try to strike a new settlement that satisfies the judge, but based on Rakoff's ruling, law professor John Coffee, who teaches a class with Rakoff at Columbia, says it is unlikely the judge would accept a substitute settlement that doesn't name any individual executives. Lewis, as the chief executive of the bank, is an obvious target. The SEC has yet to say whether it plans to pursue charges against Lewis or any other executive at Bank of America...
...Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and longtime champion of the public plan, said he intends to introduce an amendment to insert the federal alternative into the bill, though there was no word if Baucus would accept such an amendment. "The proposed co-op model is untested and unsubstantiated and should not be considered as a national model for health insurance," Rockefeller said. If Dems choose to go it alone without any Republican support, it's possible they could include such a plan in the final version of the bill. But many moderate Democrats, such as Landrieu and Nebraska...
...believe that the health of a society depends in large part on citizen’s intelligent skepticism—unwillingness to merely accept what is put before it as “gospel” (e.g., there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because there must be, or because it is “obvious,” or because Saddam says so; ...) and demanding more and better evidence. But there ought to be an articulatable and reasoned distinction between such wise and helpful skepticism and obsessive and irrational denialism...
...Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) chairman Tom Yoda announced on Sept. 16 that the festival will screen the film, after previously rejecting it for TIFF's official selection (the festival starts next month). Having come under fire for initially rejecting the documentary, Yoda said the reasons for rejecting or accepting films aren't generally discussed, as the festival receives more than 700 entries each year. No film festival has a moral obligation to accept a film, but TIFF's slogan of "Action! For Earth" raised more than a few eyebrows when the widely lauded eco-documentary didn't make...