Why hurt them further, especially when Mr. Friedman acknowledges that the bill is no panacea for Africa?
And, as Mr. Auletta observes in these pages, the company's storage of massive amounts of data about its users raises serious privacy issues, especially when the company acknowledges that it is in the advertising business and seems eager to play matchmaker between consumers and advertisers.
I'll take door number three! (Especially when the surgeon acknowledged that not only was he not a breast specialist of any kind, but he had only seen about two cases of male breast cancer in his fairly short career).
Brutal honesty, especially when it comes to acknowledging his own failings, is just one of the appealing aspects of a personality that is not entirely reflected in Els's wonderfully smooth swing or in a nickname that has never sat comfortably on his shoulders.
That set the stage for battle, especially when Bishop Robinson, with an acknowledged male partner, was consecrated by the American church in 2003.
There is something about the NBA Draft that many people don't acknowledge, especially when it turns out that much-hyped picks flame out while other teams find diamonds in the rough, late in the second round.
Understanding it is one thing, accepting it another, especially when diversity means not only acknowledging a pre-existing cornucopia of difference -- the very ampleness of the world -- but also accommodating an adjustment to the status quo.
But an Armenian "role of honour" would place Turkey's holocaust "deniers" in a difficult position: could they refuse to honour those of their own people who behaved with courage and integrity in the face of such barbarity, especially when the Armenians wish to acknowledge them?
It may be especially difficult in our era of "fake news" and "alternative facts," but we must recognize that our failure to acknowledge hard truths, especially when it comes to race, makes it easier for foreign powers to turn us against one another.
