Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stalker were a Harvard student, he would either have to use his own card to enter the building or catch the door before it closed behind the person he was stalking. If there were no key-card access, then the victim would be forced to confront his or her stalker outside, probably at night. If he or she had universal key-card access, at least he or she could get indoors...
...read about heroes like Mir commander Vasili Tsibliyev, crew member Alexander Lazutkin and American astronaut Michael Foale in magazines like TIME. How right that, on the brink of a new millennium, space exploration is experiencing a public reawakening, and the average person is encouraged to look up and confront the questions that make being alive a thrilling experience! MARIO DI MAGGIO, Education Officer Durban Natural Science Museum Durban, South Africa...
...another dysfunctional-family Thanksgiving drama, this time with a little incest and crises of identity thrown in. Josh Hamilton plays a troubled fellow who brings home his supremely normal fiancee (Tori Spelling, who's surprisingly good in this sugar-cookie role) only to confront the ghost of his past in his sister, "Jackie O" (a delightfully demented Parker Posey), who sports an obsession with the JFK assassination among her myriad kooky charms. What makes this setup more than just a gimmicky grab-bag for originality is its success in mixing the familiar and the disturbing in the composition...
...Jiang Zemin asked the West not to engage in confrontation but dialogue. However, why does he refuse dialogue with his own people? Why did the Chinese government order tanks in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 and confront the Chinese people...
...despite warnings by his handlers that he would face a protest the likes of which he has never encountered--suggests a willingness to further engage in an open dialogue with the West. At Harvard, seen by many abroad as a bastion of American liberalism, Jiang will be forced to confront calls for democratic reform more than anywhere else on his U.S. tour. At Harvard, more than anywhere else, Jiang will be forced to see that in America, the right to free expression is not his alone. He will see how protest and dissent are voiced in a democratic society that...