Word: accepting
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...This is not a movie about setting an injustice to rights. It is more profoundly about Juliette coming to grips with herself, freeing herself from her own guilty questions about her past behavior. What she has to learn is that she has been given a second chance and must accept it. It is a privilege to watch Scott Thomas work that out, subtly and realistically, in a film that remains stubbornly true to the modest presentation of psychological issues that are deeper and more potentially melodramatic than it ever overtly allows them to be. It is this discipline that frees...
...nobody ugly in the movie, and I'm not sure why there's only one Latina in a New Mexico high school, but there's (gasp) a fuller-figured girl and everyone's differences are celebrated. The biggest problem anyone seems to have is which basketball scholarship to accept, or whether or not to go to Juilliard, but, well, this is Disney, not Harmony Korine...
...have had the cowboy. We don't need the maverick sheriff with his "have gun, will travel" foreign policy. Our problems cannot be solved in a quick-draw contest. It is time for all Americans to accept personal responsibility for our part in what is happening to our country. We must vote and then pay attention to what our elected officials do. We all need to become better crisis managers of our own personal lives and finances, and of the natural resources of our world. Linda Bracken, Wagoner, Okla...
...father will vote for McCain. She worries that it "could somehow threaten our affection." Really? I understand that many people are passionate in their political beliefs, but to obsess over your own father's political preferences to the point where you want to "scold him or force him to accept [your] worldview" strikes me as rather extreme and narrow-minded. Salvatore Astorina, BROOKLYN...
...This is a unique moment in which we have to do something unprecedented in favor of the survival of our human civilization,” Gore said. “If we are to accept that goal, we must find ways to make better use of the knowledge produced in universities...and supply their best and most recent conclusions as a basis for decision making...