Word: confrontational
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...caught in a public relations bind: it will be difficult for him to explain convincingly why he is prepared to scuttle a plan to rid the world of nuclear missiles by insisting on the right to build a defensive shield against those missiles. The Soviets are likely to confront Reagan with the somewhat illogical statement he made in his Oct. 31 interview with four Soviet journalists, in which he pledged to seek the elimination of nuclear missiles before deploying a defense against them...
Beijing's new willingness to confront AIDS--China's HIV caseload, now about 1 million, is swelling as much as 30% a year--has given Zhou the chance to broach taboo issues like human rights and equality under the law. If he can champion the rights of AIDS patients, he reasons, then someday he may be able to do the same for gay men--or anyone else. Zhou dreams of representing a gay man in an antidiscrimination lawsuit, but so far, no plaintiffs are willing to brave the exposure. "Law and policy always involve compromise," he says, "and sometimes being...
...year-old with 80-year-old parents, you may think that the sibling rivalries and parental hurts of your childhood are history. Fat chance. Simmering resentment between siblings has a nasty way of re-erupting as boomers confront the reality of caring for aging parents. "We have an unexpressed wish that our parents will someday acknowledge the injustices done us," notes University of Pittsburgh elder-law professor Larry Frolik. "Someday Mom will understand that I'm as smart as my rich older brother or will finally admit, 'Honey, your husband's really a swell...
...dilemmas adult children must confront at that point, caregiving--who does it, where it is done, how it is shared (or not)--is one of the most charged. The practical tasks occur in the midst of one of our most difficult emotional passages as adults. Our parents' frailty forces us to confront our own mortality. And in that emotionally volatile atmosphere, the psychic baggage from childhood complicates the important work of caregiving...
...Most of this is nonsense. The Gods of Wisdom are bored. They are suffering fight-deprivation syndrome. The big spring battle in the Senate over filibuster rules and judicial appointments was resolved through compromise; Social Security has been talked to death; and the insipid Democrats have refused to confront the President on issues that actually matter, like the need for a comprehensive health-insurance overhaul or the absence of a coherent strategy in Iraq. The titillation of the trivial-the tendency to rate the presidency solely on the polling and politics of the moment-means that Bush has largely escaped...