"If someone was offended by our performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, I am ready to recognize that we committed an ethical mistake," Ms. Tolokonnikova told the judge in her handwritten statement.
Iran's supreme leader is mainly interested to see whether the United States has shifted its position and is ready to recognize Iran as a main power in the Middle East.
"We believe that if the United States is ready to recognize Iran's rights, to respect Iran's rights and move from that perspective, then we have a real chance, and we negotiate with the full authority of the leader," Zarif said, referring to Ayatollah Khamenei.
"And given the intensive arrest efforts for the last two or three years, it's hard to believe that people are ready to recognize that every single case has a human angle".
However, it is important to signal that the international community will be ready to recognize a negotiated agreement between Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in regard to their future political arrangements, whatever those arrangement might be.
He added that 100 countries were ready to recognize Kosovo's independence as soon as it was declared.
"Following the model of Pirandello's 'Right You Are,' families recognized Mangin because they were ready to recognize practically anybody," Mr. Le Naour notes.
We are ready to recognize the humanity of those who were victims of an unequal system; the film's poise forces us to recognize, as well, the humanity of those who served as executioners.
"There is nothing to say that a few years from now, or sooner, that New York State won't be ready to recognize the equality that our families should have," Mr. Levi said.
If the child is father of the man — if childhood shapes future sensibility — then Otto Frank, despite his sufferings in Auschwitz, may have had less in common with his own daughter than he was ready to recognize.
