Word: reckon
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...Wednesday, Palestinian officials say his answer is "la'am"--a conjoining of the Arabic words na'am, yes, and la, no. Israeli diplomats tell TIME it won't be possible to put together a true peace deal by the end of Clinton's term on Jan. 20. However, they reckon there's a fifty-fifty chance that negotiators could agree to a symbolic statement that would let Clinton bow out gracefully and set a more hopeful tone for the new Administration. Without that, there's sure to be more work for the hit squads...
...vast and complex saga. Burns may be the only documentary filmmaker at work today who would be entrusted with the time and resources to reckon with it, but he is also one of the least likely to have brought it off. Whatever the considerable merits of his previous epic undertakings like The Civil War and Baseball, they did not have the rich vein of recklessness, the abandon and the humor, the rhapsodic beauty or deep darkness, that are all so much a part of jazz. They may have been terrific, but they sure didn't swing...
...question really is whether the Chilean military is prepared to accept democratic life, including due process of law against its own officers when they have violated the country's law or its constitution. And the emerging standoff in Santiago therefore presents the U.S. with an opportunity to reckon with a stain on its own history in Latin America, particularly in relation to Chile...
...standard democratic standard of behavior are extremely serious, then it may behoove Washington - preferably with the endorsement of whichever transition team makes it to the White House - to actively warn those generals against doing anything stupid. The Clinton administration has throughout its tenure made a laudable effort to reckon with the history of U.S. support for regimes such as Pinochet's. Now they have an opportunity to underscore that atonement with a few well-placed phone calls in defense of democracy and the rule...
...this statement I am not trying to imply that the Harvard undergraduate body is the single awesome intellectual force that the rest of the world (e.g. Yale) needs to reckon with, I am merely making a simple observation. It is hard, very hard, to get into this place. How hard? Go to the admissions office and have them give you the statistics or, better yet, take a poll among all your friends who didn't get in here and see what they say. Certainly, there aren't make many generalizations you can make about the Harvard student body...