Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...racing to Baghdad in their Humvees. And, however unfair that portrayal, the fact that it is widely believed—and in the country which is, after all, America’s most loyal ally—is a tremendous problem, whether or not the Bush administration cares to confront...
...finally, it is Christy and Ariel who capture our hearts--especially Emma Bolger, 7, as the younger child. She is--no other word for it--magical in the role, one of those kids who confront the world fearlessly, straightforwardly and with a cheerfulness that never veers toward the emptily uplifting. In her way she encapsulates In America's virtues. It's a realistic movie, but one that's always aware that transformative hope may be just around the corner. --By Richard Schickel
...facing fewer than 5,000 insurgents in all. That figure, while based on interrogations of Iraqi fighters, is "little more than a smart guess," says a senior Pentagon official. Among the estimated 5,000, military officials say, are perhaps a couple of hundred foreigners who have infiltrated Iraq to confront the Americans. The former Saddam aide said he had met two Libyans who came to Iraq to join the battle, both of them veterans of the civil war in Sudan. CIA briefers told a group of Senators in Washington last week that fighters who have arrived recently from Syria...
...wants to look back and have to confront the specter of What Could Have Been...
Rothko, known for large canvases that confront the viewer with the subtlety and depth of large fields of color, painted three mural cycles late in his career. The second of these was commissioned for the Holyoke Center penthouse, an idea initially based in a 1960 request by Harvard’s Society of Fellows. After the Society found they could not afford to rent the penthouse for their own use, Professor Wassily Leontief—who led the society and initially came up with the idea of approaching Rothko for the commission—and then-Fogg Art Museum director...