Word: insist
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...inhabitants of Rampasasa insist their claimed genealogy is no tall tale. Indeed, among the rattan-and-thatch shacks of what otherwise seems an ordinary if very poor Flores village, it's hard not to notice the large number of very short people, particularly among the older folk, some of whom are the same height as a typical 10-year-old. Some six generations of intermarriage with outsiders, says Rampasasa's headman Alfredus Ontas, have left few truly tiny individuals. But to prove their antecedents, he and other locals eagerly display photos of recently deceased relatives whom they say were...
...International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN body that polices the NPT. Tehran defused the crisis with nimble diplomacy, opening up its facilities to inspection and allowing unannounced and more intrusive inspections of its nuclear sites. That's not enough for the Europeans, and particularly the Americans, who insist on Iran abandoning all enrichment activity and making do with low-grade reactor fuel imported from Europe. (The concern is that enrichment is a route to bomb material - low levels of enrichment make reactor fuel, but much higher levels can create bomb-grade material.) Iran rejects this offer, refusing to make...
...Pope may be the catalyst for that sorely needed change. Dick Decker Seaside, California, U.S. The new Pope is conservative, and while this is not good for church unity around the globe, I doubt that a more liberal Pope could bring about much change. The Catholic Church will always insist on the Pope's overarching status. Europe will not be saved by the Pope, nor will Christianity grow in Western Europe, as almost two millenniums of church tyranny will not be easily forgotten or forgiven. My hope is that the next Pope will be a man who will truly attempt...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
...Officials from Seoul and Washington continue to insist that all is well between the two sides?in public, at least. "Our alliance has never been stronger," a senior U.S. State Department official said last week. "The steady pace of visits and consultations is evidence of that." But there's also plenty of evidence of ongoing divisiveness. Assistant Secretary of State 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...