Word: confrontational
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While Tehran's unprecedented "endorsement" of President Bush raised some eyebrows this week, Iran hasn?t been much of an issue in the Presidential campaign. But as international efforts to confront the Islamic Republic's nuclear program enter a critical phase, there's little doubt Iran will be at the top of a new administration's agenda. And as the exchange between President Bush and Senator Kerry in the first presidential debate showed, there are not many good options...
...Americans are aware all is not perfect in Iraq, but we also know where Bush stands and that he will at least confront threats to the U.S. What would Kerry have done in response to 9/11? Kerry's problem is not that Bush has fooled the American people with some fantasy but that most voters don't want to take a chance on Kerry. Bob Fernstrom Hong Kong...
...news to come in Iraq and quite possibly on the domestic economy. They are open to the idea of replacing Bush, but not with a politician who shares the President's most basic flaw--a cynical underappreciation of the public's ability to sacrifice, hunker down and directly confront what has suddenly become a very difficult world...
...room for the night costs less than a cappuccino at the Mecca Mall. "A hundred dollars doesn't go far here like it does in Baghdad," says Jamal. That only makes the sight of the former Baathists harder to bear. Few of the new-wave Iraqis would dare confront their former oppressors; most confine their defiance to hostile stares. Sometimes anger boils over into action. According to reports, Raghad's encounter with a fellow exile turned nasty after she asked the woman if she, too, came from Iraq. "Yes, but I will not speak with you," the woman is said...
...Americans, it is always hard for us to confront the remnants of former greatness, skewed and corrupted by a decided lack of originality and misguided attempts to be hip and cool. It’s what is vaguely depressing about Rod Stewart cutting an album of jazz standards; the plight of rock stars bereft of new material can’t help but make us sad. In this grand tradition, R.E.M’s new album, Around the Sun, is at some points so frankly ill-advised that one wonders if Michael Stipe had his ostrich feather boa tied...