Word: reckoner
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...addition to Rivera, the Diamondbacks also faced the obstacle of competing against the Yankee legacy. Arizona had to reckon with the ghosts of Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle and DiMaggio...
...Mazari al-Sharif: Wintry stalemate? Any U.S. officials who had hoped this strategic northern town would have been recaptured by the Northern Alliance by now did not reckon with the tenacity of the Taliban and the battlefield limits of the outnumbered, outgunned, ammunition-starved and divided Northern Alliance forces. The battle around Mazari has see-sawed back to more or less the same front lines as three weeks ago, and some reports suggest the Northern Alliance may now be preparing for a siege, hoping that the ravages of winter will weaken the city's defenders...
...yourself flying across the country. An engine starts sputtering; cause for alarm, sure, but the pilot does that folksy number--"Aw, shucks, little problem here"--and assures you the others can take the strain. Then a second engine goes out; the sweat trickles down your neck, but you reckon you'll make it to the ground safely. But if the third, and then the fourth, flame...
...unforeseen factor may exacerbate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: migration out of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Jordanian officials reckon at least 100,000 Palestinians have left the West Bank to work illegally in their country since the intifadeh began. (Israeli sources put the number at about 50,000.) An additional 40,000 Palestinians have fled for the U.S., South America and Egypt. In a population of 3 million under Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, that's a sizable flight, with sizable consequences. Those who leave tend to worry more about making a living than about politics...
...Bush has to reckon with the Clinton policy on this, which was already a compromise of a compromise: Use federal funding for the research, but not for the collection of the stem cells themselves. Here the Solomonic solution may actually be to cut the baby in half, and give something to each side. Even though it's not ideologically pure - and a little messy...