Word: confrontation
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...book, Bok presents a more optimistic approach. Perhaps students are inclined to act morally, but do not because "they are simply unaware of the ethical problems that lie hidden in the situations they confront." Others, Bok adds, find themselves too "enmeshed" in ethical problems to make their way out cleanly. Finally, Bok points out that college-aged students are still establishing the standards they will hold themselves to in their future professional and personal lives. In other words, it would be wrong of a college to in any way abandon its duty to attempt to teach its students...
President Clinton told the nation's governors he wouldtoughen up welfareby barring recipients who refuse to work from getting additional food stamps. Moving to confront Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole's plan to transfer the lion's share of federal welfare monies to the states, Clinton defended Washington's role as crucial to poor children. "I believe we ought to have a continued partnership," the President told the National Governors' Association in Burlington, Vermont. "I am opposed to welfare reform that is really just a mask forcongressional budget cutting." Dole, who spoke earlier, said he would introduce legislation by week...
...redeem himself last April, when he expertly handled the FBI's investigation of the Oklahoma City blast. But last week he came under renewed scrutiny after another FBI official, E. Michael Kahoe, admitted destroying documents collected during an internal investigation of the Ruby Ridge episode. Now congressional investigators must confront several questions: Did Kahoe act on the orders of a superior, possibly Potts? And did the destroyed papers contain the identity of the official who issued the shoot-on-sight order? At least one FBI agent has charged that Potts gave the signal. Potts insists...
...Washington, Bosnia's foreign minister declared the U.N. peacekeeping mission "at an end" and said the Muslim government would demand the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers unless contributing nations agreed to confront Serb rebels in combat. That's roughly what France has proposed to do, to the chagrin of Britain and other partners who fear the plan is brash and unrealistic. Even so, one European Union official told TIME's Jay Branegan at a meeting of European foreign ministers today that French and British positions "are becoming closer." And yet: "The British want to see a very detailed plan...
...Cairo sends troops to the disputed Halaib region claimed by both countries. Tensions have been escalating since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused Sudan's leader Hassan Turabi of planning last week's assasination attempt in Ethiopia. In response to Sudan's threats, an angry Mubarak warned that Egypt would confront "those who play with fire in Khartoum...