Hollande, who has said he wants a "calm" hand-over and to reconcile a France that is left bitterly divided by Sarkozy, accepted.
Releasing them does a disservice to the loved ones of their victims, who accepted — sometimes very bitterly — that these criminals would not be put to death in exchange for the promise that they would never walk free again.
He joined the Air Training Corps as a cadet and was bitterly disappointed when he was not accepted by the RAF.
Charles, bitterly resentful over his humiliating defeat at Chatham, accepted the French offer of a richly subsidized alliance.
Oksanen, meanwhile, is bitterly critical of the Helsinki book fair, which has accepted the Russian embassy as this year's sponsor.
"They're both bitterly disappointed but because they are such nice people they have accepted it," head coach Richard Hill told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
He was never accepted by either Oxford or Cambridge because his philosophy was bitterly opposed to their then orthodoxy of linguistic philosophy.
What the book may show is that notions that were bitterly divisive several years ago -- diversity, multiculturalism, inclusiveness -- are now so widely accepted as to have become entirely standard.
Pundits talk blithely about the good old days of bipartisanship, but there's no real precedent in modern American history for a bipartisan bargain in which two bitterly divided sides both accept so many painful sacrifices.
