Word: confrontational
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...Tuesday's outrage in Jerusalem, however, made that position untenable - Washington began pressing anew for Abbas to confront Hamas and Islamic Jihad. That simply underscored the prime minister's political weakness. His function in the current process has essentially been that of an emissary between the Israelis and Americans on the one hand, and those Palestinians with whom they refuse to talk directly - Hamas, JI, the various Fatah militias and terrorist groups and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. Abbas has been more than simply a messenger, of course. He believes passionately that the armed intifada has brought catastrophe on the Palestinian...
...wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long," President Bush told West Point cadets last summer. "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Still, there is no good option on North Korea. The U.S. military predicts that 1 million people could be killed in the first month of a war, most of them South Korean civilians. Pinpoint strikes on the North's nuclear facilities are difficult to envision, since some of the known facilities are in hardened installations buried deep inside the mountains, while...
...kind of place where the word of the day is schadenfreude and five nightstands rearrange themselves into a "one-night stand." Instead of spelling bees and ABCs, the characters, including Princeton, an earnest, clean-cut college grad, and his sometime girlfriend Kate Monster, a kindergarten aide, confront such grownup issues as unemployment, sex and the rent...
...think that every generation should have the opportunity to be able to confront this period of history because it was significant and horrific,” he said. “So there is a remembrance aspect to it. I’m not Jewish, but I don’t think the Holocaust should be forgotten...
...Shiite majority. While the leading clerics and some of the Shiite organizations previously based in Iran have counseled moderation and working with the U.S. authority, the young firebrand Moqtada al-Sadr appears to be wrapping his own bid for supremacy among the Shia in an increasingly strident campaign to confront the occupation, reinforcing his claims to leadership of the streets by channeling popular sentiment over the heads of those taking a more moderate approach. Last weekend's clashes at Karbala, in which one Iraqi was killed and a number wounded in a demonstration sparked by false and probably deliberately fueled...