Word: confrontational
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...President George W. Bush has gotten it right. Earlier this month, he came out against the use of the point-based affirmative action admissions system currently in place at the University of Michigan. The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the Michigan case finally allows us to confront the issue of race in college admissions head on and move towards a race-blind university admissions system that truly gives an equal opportunity...
...courage to face a situation that has a huge downside and scant probability of a positive outcome is the very reason that these three women should be recognized. While other people may have had a stronger impact in 2002, these three put faces on an issue we each must confront every day: doing a tough thing for the right reasons. KRISS A. MORRIS Ellisville...
...university administrators from across the country confront the issue, they, like el-Gaili, are concerned and perplexed—and fear that, at least in the short term, there is no easy solution for their international students...
...conscious and the unconscious: he showed us that beneath the surface banality of everyday thoughts and gestures lurk subterranean caverns of forbidden longings that reach all the way back to our earliest childhood memories. Freud's therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis, was an intellectual exploration of those depths, where patients could confront their deepest, darkest desires. If they recognized and overcame those repressed desires, the theory went, they could return to the surface with a calmer, healthier mind...
...Last February, 45 Longshan residents walked to Youbao's headquarters to confront its owner, Wang Jilong. Su Xiange, a 37-year-old former miner who was among them, says Wang offered to buy new houses on the other side of town for residents whose homes had been damaged. "We thought that settled it," says Su, "and we went home satisfied." In April, 50 townspeople returned to Wang's office to see what arrangements had been made for their move. "But this time," says Wang Hao, a 65-year-old retired miner, "the boss said he wouldn't help...