Word: rejection
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...REJECT many advertisements. Then again, we don't get offered too many blatantly false ads from blatantly anti-Semites. Last December, The Crimson and other college papers received a full-page ad explaining how the thought police was preventing academic debate about the Holocaust's non-existence, how the photos, documents and eyewitness accounts proving the obvious in fact prove nothing, how "Zionists and others in the Jewish community" whose "political and financial support for Jewish causes" had led "a conspiracy to suppress the truth." We chose not to run the ad and returned the money...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. Best not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxes your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to called "assistant," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...Israeli-appointed locals or by officials who were last elected in 1976. But the Palestine Liberation Organization said municipal balloting should come only after elections for a Palestinian legislative body -- perhaps because recent balloting has voted P.L.O. supporters out and Islamic fundamentalists in. Still, the Palestinians didn't actually reject the proposition. There is considerable support at home for the local elections, and the delegates want to appear flexible...
...students seeking government office, the proper educational background is vital. Many student politicians concentrate in government, though they are quick to reject the sterotype of the overbearing, briefcase-toting "gov jock...
...held within a year. They instructed Massoud to take charge in Kabul until their arrival. The U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, Benon Sevan, asked all factions to set aside their differences and cooperate, but he was less than optimistic. "What they agree to in the morning," he said, "they reject in the evening as if it were signed in invisible ink." Hekmatyar talked with Massoud for two hours by radio and then rejected the compromise plan...