Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Besides such logistical hassles, the players sometimes had to confront skepticism from classmates. The Black and White's reputation for partying, it seemed, exceeded that for playing...
Although we would like to think of sports as a world apart, a sacred preserve spared the problems that confront society, the unavoidable reality is that society's problems concern us all, leaving neither housewife nor sports he to unaffected. The news that makes the front page inevitably finds it way, in some form, to the sports page...
According to Ferrara and Frantz, the Harvard football team has not given up on its lofty goals for the season. The players clearly believe that they can win their final three games. And if they fail, they are willing to confront that failure head...
...soldiers. The subsequent years of seemingly incessant Balkan warfare made it unlikely Clinton would ever have to redeem that pledge, but remarkable diplomatic progress in recent months--much of it stemming from the efforts of Clinton's envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke--has forced the President to confront his commitment. Last week the indefatigable Holbrooke was flitting between the Balkan capitals in an effort to, as he told TIME, "get fuller compliance" on the region's fragile cease-fire. It was his final trip before three-way peace talks, refereed by the U.S., kick...
...question is how anyone could not read the play along political lines. People view Heidi as an emblem for the women's movement itself, so that her decision is seen as a defeat for feminism. Wasserstein, who was herself an activist not unlike Heidi, wrote the play to confront her resignation from superwoman-hood, and the sadness she felt at remaining single with no children. Heidi's path mirrored the one she herself would have chosen, but for ardent feminists, this...