Blick's intelligent, deeply humane writing acknowledged all sides of the argument, as mistrust and good intentions became mired in compromise, historical grievance and that eternal bugbear of bad politics, miscommunication.
In the interview, Mr. Knoop outlined the origin and execution of the scheme, which he said was motivated initially by his and Ms. Albert's shared desire to have their artistic work — his music and her writing — acknowledged by a wider audience.
An administrator in Orange County, Trillin writes, acknowledged that Ocoee was in a way saying, "We want out".
"I am very, very, very sorry that I did this," she wrote, acknowledging, too, that it was not the first time.
"These tweets have no manager, no publicist, no grammar checking... this is raw," Mr. West wrote, acknowledging the medium's promise of highlighting artists in an unmonitored fashion.
"Currency issues were once left to the United States, Europe and Japan, but that will no longer work in the new world economy," they wrote, acknowledging that the days in which American officials could more or less dictate global monetary policy had ended.
" Here pity, or here piety, must die," she writes, acknowledging the alternative that it might be pity that lives, as it certainly does in Dante's poem, while orthodox piety and its grim fortifications collapse.
"The debate in India over rape laws, particularly marital rape, is about the simplest thing of all," she wrote, "acknowledging that women (and men, and children) have a right over their own bodies".
The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience" (HarperCollins, 1996), Dr. Laura writes: "Acknowledging that you are basically the perpetrator of your mess of a life is admittedly very upsetting".
Ms. Barnouin, who did most of the research while Ms. Freedman wrote, acknowledges that the book delivers its message with a spoonful of spice rather than being a straightforward treatise.
"Thunderbolts from heaven were, for him, something to be captured by a kite string and studied," Mr. Isaacson writes, acknowledging his subject's fundamental shallowness in matters of religion and philosophy.
