In effect, the world should no longer acknowledge Mr. Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president.
That, of course, is the very definition of the filibuster, now so routine that Republican no longer acknowledge what they are doing.
Russia has said it no longer acknowledges the authority of Mr. Schockenhoff, and Agence France-Presse reported that his aides had said he had been denied meetings with diplomats and had not been admitted to the Russian Parliament.
Re "When Will We Stop Saying 'First Woman to ----------'?" (Week in Review, April 9), about the naming of Katie Couric as the next anchor of the "CBS Evening News": There is this myth that equality under the law is tantamount to no longer acknowledging a difference between the sexes, to removing all gender boundaries, to the creation of coed bathrooms.
Pranab Kaku's parents were horrified by the thought of their only son marrying an American woman, and a few weeks later our telephone rang in the middle of the night: it was Mr. Chakraborty telling my father that they could not possibly bless such a marriage, that it was out of the question, that if Pranab Kaku dared to marry Deborah he would no longer acknowledge him as a son.
But too many people no longer acknowledge these benefits as their own negative experience dominates.
"Add to all of this," Kim said urgently, "That they are no longer acknowledging the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953".
Increasing the sugar keeps a bagel fresher longer, he acknowledged, but "we're not a sweeter bagel, we're a traditional bagel".
McGuinness, who claims to have left the IRA in 1974, though British and Irish intelligence believe he was active for longer, had acknowledged the difficulties for both himself and the Queen.
