Word: adopter
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...recent escalation in violence in Gaza, but said that he remained cautiously optimistic. “I actually think there is a glimmer of a possibility to break this gridlock,” said Khalidi. For Feldman, an important component of achieving peace is convincing Hamas to adopt nonviolent means. “There is no way Hamas can meet the expectations of their constituencies in a state of conflict,” said Feldman. Both panelists applauded President Barack H. Obama’s choice of former Senator George Mitchell as special envoy to the Middle East, but they...
...Muslim Woman,” for example, pasted in a bricked-up eave of The Garage stands in close proximity to a graffitied iron gate and the faded, stained-glass windows of John Harvard’s. The juxtaposition is subtly ironic, as the antiquated windows adopt cultural figures of their own—John F. Kennedy’s head, for one, is cropped onto a saint’s body, with “Ask not what your country can brew for you, ask what you can brew for your country” below. The interplay between Fairey?...
...young girls waving flags told TIME they'd come to "show that we believe in the path of the revolutionaries and want to follow it." Like them, the overwhelming majority of Iranians today have no memory of the revolution as a lived experience and tend to adopt attitudes shaped by their parents' responses to the events of 30 years...
...really don't know what the future holds. Like most Americans, I want to see Barack Obama adopt effective, correct principles and successfully lead our country. And so any discussion of future politics for me is, I think, premature...
...Even more significantly, where states once hurried to adopt death penalty laws, the pendulum now appears to be swinging in the other direction. In 2007 New Jersey became the first state in 40 years to abolish its death penalty. In that same year repeal bills were narrowly defeated in Montana, Nebraska and New Mexico, all of which are revisiting the issue this year. Now the focus is on Maryland. After years of failed attempts by death penalty opponents to bring a repeal bill to a vote in the state legislature, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is personally sponsoring this year...