Word: confrontational
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...Sisler’s focus on the “plus” in “scholarship plus” subtracts from the number of slots available to people writing in academic fields without commercial possibilities. And aspiring scholars frequently confront an informal “two-book” rule—to be considered for a tenured humanities position at a top university, many departments expect that a candidate have two books published and favorably reviewed. “University presses play a crucial role in the whole process by which people get tenure...
...Universities have learned that racial diversity helps students confront perspectives other than their own, forcing them to think more rigorously and imaginatively. Diversity also helps break down prejudices and stereotypes by showing students that every ethnic community includes a broad range of viewpoints and experiences and that imagined differences often turn out to be only skin deep...
...international antiwar movement does not have the problems of division and delicacy that confront groups in the U.S. In Berlin, Paris and Cairo, protesters are united by pacifism and anti-Americanism. The war has only reaffirmed their views and intensified their fervor, and protests in Europe and the Middle East are likely to endure well into any possible American occupation of Iraq...
American and British forces could still confront fearsome resistance if the Republican Guard units defending Baghdad are ready and willing to fight. No one expected Iraqi forces to put up much of a struggle in the barren, Shi'ite-dominated south, where support for Saddam's regime is soft. "We figured they would cave," says a Pentagon official. "They aren't the Republican Guard." But Saddam's most loyal fighters remain entrenched farther north, outside the capital and in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. While their numbers are dwindling by the day--from desertions if not from U.S. bombs...
...Twenty four hours earlier,42 year old Iraqi civil engineer Abdul Amir had told the check point soldiers that the Army in Shinafiyah was staying at home and the only fighter they might confront would be poorly trained militias. " Some of them want to fight, and some of them may be made to fight."he said. "It's suicide. There is no benefit, only fighting, only death. Their only chance is cheating, fighting beside children, using white flags, whatever they have...