Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Security Council authorization, NATO is intervening in a civil war, a war of secession, to halt the cruelty with which it is being fought--especially by the Serbs. In the process, the allies run the risk that their attacks might increase the level of killing in Kosovo, drive the conflict into neighboring countries and make a negotiated peace less likely...
...University primatologist Frans De Waal is busy extending its evolutionary pedigree. A study at his Living Links Center suggests that the Christian church's teaching on reconciliation may be viewed as the refinement of mechanisms reaching back not some 2,000 years but 25 million. "Instead of looking at conflict resolution as uniquely ours," he says, "we are showing that it exists in many cooperative species," particularly chimpanzees. De Waal's work focuses on the "social memories" of primates, and he says, "We have full confidence that they have memories of fights, hold grudges--and make up when necessary." While...
...donkey suit to play Bottom in the forthcoming remake of A Midsummer Night's Dream. For his version of Shakespeare's tale of nymphs, fairies, queens and mismatched lovers, Hoffman sought to explore the vagaries of romance: "It struck me that all the characters were involved in a conflict between the desire for love and the desire to maintain their dignity," he says. Along the way, he unwittingly discovered another conflict between the sexes: "It was a contest to see whether Michelle or Kevin took longer in makeup...
Much of this chapter is devoted to President Woodrow Wilson's steadfast and not entirely popular efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict between the Allied and Central Powers. There is nothing new here, but there is value in being reintroduced to an American leader whose every move was not dictated by public whim. This installment, in addition to offering moving reflections from still-living World War I veterans, also features an appearance by Wilson's grandson, the Rev. Francis Sayre. He talks about how his widowed grandfather fell for Edith Galt, a woman he met golfing...
...force at all. The dovish part of the President, his make-love-not-war part, is so deeply ingrained that his advisers no longer bother to deny it. He really believes that we all could get along fine if only he were around to lead us in a big conflict-resolution workshop. He normally keeps that stuff under wraps, but it was on display last Tuesday in a mostly ad-libbed speech at a conference of government unions. "I want us to live in a world," he said, "where we get along with each other, with all of our differences...