Word: confrontational
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...Amir Butler, head of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee, agrees. "The only way to fight offensive ideas is to confront them intellectually," he says. "Legislation cannot make bad ideas disappear." Butler fears that "if Muslims rush to the courts, some people will get the impression we can't respond to the arguments and think there must be some truth in them." Without the law, he says, the pastors would have been ignored. Instead, "they've become martyrs." And their Supreme Court appeal will bring even more publicity. In silencing two voices, it seems, the law has provoked an uproar...
...precisely those imperfections--and the painful self-awareness of those failings etched in every crease of his face and reflected in those haunted eyes--that make him so compelling. For when the time came to confront the greatest moral challenge this nation has ever faced, this all too human man did not pass the challenge on to future generations. He neither demonized the fathers and sons who did battle on the other side nor sought to diminish the terrible costs of his war. In the midst of slavery's dark storm and the complexities of governing a house divided...
...tragedy of history is not the perpetual hopeless clash between saintly individuals and diabolical establishments, but rather the perpetual clash between the relatively decent societies and the bloody ones. To be more precise: the perpetual cowardice of relatively decent societies whenever they confront the ruthlessness of the oppressive ones...
Beyond the immediate political repercussions, though, the controversy over the former Secretary-General's war record has forced Austrians to confront long-suppressed but painful questions about their country's support for Hitler. Unlike West Germans, most Austrians have not had to analyze their role in World War II. Although the country had 600,000 registered members of Nazi organizations by the end of the war, the Allied powers declared that Austria had been the first victim of Hitler's aggression when he annexed the country...
...record 13 challenging 12-meter yachts--hulls gleaming, sails taut and design breakthroughs as secret as possible--launched a series of up to 255 heats off Fremantle, Perth's port city. Six American syndicates want the chance to confront the Australian defender in the finals at the end of the southern summer next February. So do two teams each from France and Italy, as well as entries from Britain, Canada and New Zealand, whose unique fiber-glass boat was doing well enough last week to draw a protest. This week four Australian boats, including another of Bond's, will begin...