Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...counseling groups exist for the very purpose of dealing with the issues that arise through their outreaches. They are not cruelly leaving the proctors to fend for themselves; they are providing the proctors, and more importantly, their (and all) students with a safe and healthy place to begin to confront serious questions...
Most people find the debate over D & E discomfiting for its grisly details (though, in fact, all surgical abortions are gruesome) and for what we don't know--the number of procedures and the medical circumstances. But it is also disturbing because it forces us to confront when and why these procedures happen. Most of us assume that later-term abortions are rare, indeed prohibited, except in the gravest circumstances. We're wrong...
...world was a wound..." the novel begins, and the despairing tone grows ever more hopeless from there. Later in the chapter, a grieving Richard sorts through James' belongings and discovers a letter that leads him to believe that his wife Sarah had an affair with James. Unable to confront his own shock, let alone Sarah, Richard becomes more and more detached from his family...
...pleased to note that the Board of Ministry is establishing a task force to explore the possibility of allowing same-sex blessing ceremonies in Memorial Church. The formation of this new committee is a good first step for the Board to confront its tacit allowance of homosexual commitments at the house of worship over which it presides--the church of Harvard University...
...know that the South has a better handle on race relations. [But] Blacks and whites in the South have had to confront each other more," said Edward T. "Ned" Freeman '00, who has lived in North Carolina, Alabama and most recently Louisiana...