Word: confrontational
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After weeks of delicate negotiations, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution forcing Iraq to disarm or confront "serious consequences"--most likely war. Iraq's neighbor Syria, widely expected to abstain, was the last country to come around in favor of the measure, after intense lobbying by France, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and even some moderate Arab states. Annan cautioned Syria, the council's only Arab member, that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein might exploit its nonvote in his propaganda. Now Iraq has until Nov. 15 to accept the terms of the decree; U.N. weapons inspectors must resume...
...victory speech last night, he acknowledged the challenges he will confront in the next four years and asked for public support...
...play aims “to confront the gap between the selves we present and the selves we really are,” says producer Joanna S.B. O’Leary ’03, referring both to Closer and students at Harvard...
Critics often suggest that these photographs increase viewers’ awareness of the banal objects we confront on a daily basis. As Paul states on the wall text, “these idiosyncratic scenes not only allow us to see such everyday objects afresh but also draw our attention to the relation between objects and their users.” These images do not exist simply to give us a greater understanding of the importance of orange peels or pomegranate skins. Viewed in the context of his portraits, one begins to see that these disposable items are the traces left...
...that stripped the countryside of animals. In other countries there have been terrifying fires. All these events were disasters that did not need a terrorist to set them off. A single reasonably intelligent person could have caused any of them, yet the U.S. still plans to use bombers to confront a potentially invisible terrorist. A million missiles are of no use against a teenager with a briefcase. BILL AGNEW Ecclefechan, Scotland...