Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undergraduate Council Reform Committee winds down its deliberations and prepares to make its recommendations to the full council on Apr. 27, it is time to confront this contradiction of support and derision...
...that in a nation that owns one-quarter of the world's diamonds, malnutrition was killing more than one-third of the Zairian population. The U.S. was a key player among the Western nations that helped line Mobutu's coffers. The current overtures of China to the Western marketplace confront the global community with a similar challenge. Let's hope that Washington does not undermine our nation's democratic ideals by failing to set an exemplary standard in the same way that we failed the people of Zaire. JOE MCELWEE Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania...
...concentrate on spiritually orphaned, Internet-lonely California is to miss the point, when mass suicides confront us in Canada, in South Korea, even in placid Switzerland. And to focus too much on the millenarian climate is to ignore the fact that even in Shakespeare, comets mark "change of times and states" (as he writes in the first sentence of Henry VI, Part 1). When prodigies break out in the fourth act of a Shakespearean tragedy, it is a sign that the time is out of joint: some fundamental link between man and his environment, as intrinsic as the link between...
...classes due to snow, just thinking about the prospect of trudging to class through two feet of snow made us positively exhausted. We were lucky to have some professors inform us that they were snowed up in Western Massachusetts, but ultimately we had to lace up our boots to confront the great outdoors...
...kind of class where you are forced to confront what it is like to be a part of the identity group you are a part of, and how it affects how people perceive you," says Andrea R. Zealand, who was a student in the class. "It isn't the type of class that can be passed on to other people...