Mr. Death acknowledged that some consider webisodes "the flavor du jour" in a fad-driven media industry, but sponsors are signed "before we shoot a frame" of a Web series, giving them a leg up in a crowded, competitive field.
David Slingerland, the state official who oversaw O. D. Heck as well as a number of state-run group homes at the time of Jonathan's death, acknowledged in a deposition earlier this year that the amount of overtime Mr. Tirado had worked was a cause of Jonathan's death.
Graham Greene, in a letter to The Times shortly after Waugh's death, acknowledged him as "the greatest novelist of my generation", while Time magazine's obituarist called him "the grand old mandarin of modern British prose", and asserted that his novels "will continue to survive as long as there are readers who can savor what critic V. S. Pritchett calls 'the beauty of his malice' ".
"For God's sake, if you acknowledge you should not put children to death, acknowledge that you should not put to death the mentally retarded," said Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware, chairman of the Judiciary Committe.
His inscription to Hardwick, in a copy of his last book, "Day by Day," published just before his death, acknowledges her Orpheus-like courage: "For Lizzie, / Who snatched me out of chaos, / with all my love / in Castine Aug. 1977 / Cal".
With training and practice, I believe doctors could learn to experience the sadness of a patient's death, acknowledge it, decouple it from feelings of guilt or inadequacy, and move to the other side of grief.
In September 1986, Mr. Telyatnikov, who was still alive, and two of his colleagues who had already perished — among the 31 deaths acknowledged in the weeks after Chernobyl blew — received the nation's highest honor, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Margaret Aspinall and Trevor Hicks, two of the parents who have tirelessly campaigned for the truth about their children's deaths, acknowledged Wednesday that in the privacy of their own homes they would now have to confront the new suggestion that their sons, their daughters, might after all have been among the 41 whose asphyxia had possibly been reversible.
"It would appear that you are unaware that our country is in the midst of a severe epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose deaths – acknowledged by the federal government as the worst drug epidemic in U.S. history," Anderson said in his letter.
In a statement to The Los Angeles Times after his death, Steve Martin acknowledged the debt that he and many others owe to "the Amazing Ballantine".
