Word: confrontational
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...have known only the disorder of war. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited Washington last week, where U.S. officials pressed him over the mounting civilian deaths among Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli army. Two years into the intifadeh, Israel faces many of the same frustrations that confront the U.S. 12 months into its "war on terror." "You need patience or you'll make mistakes," says Tibon, who took control in Nablus two months ago, after a year-long leave at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. "There can be no knockout, just a victory...
...current emphasis on blind partisanship is sadly misguided. The ability to consider each issue on its merits and act accordingly has been relegated to a minor concern behind vigorous campaigning for professional politicians. A primary function of HRC and HCD should be to encourage students to confront the important political questions of the day and formulate their own opinions on them, unburdened by preconceived dogma or diatribe. Their failure to do so is a lazy intellectual cop-out. Moreover, without the emergence of individuals from colleges like Harvard who are prepared to question publicly the wisdom of the ruling elites...
...wasn't - between the first and second plane they were already talking about what would happen to hedge funds. When I was growing up, it was forbidden to talk about money or success. That's the country I was raised in. TIME: Do you ever feel compelled to confront a one-dimensional image of America here? Malkovich: Well, it's a pretty big country, with an extraordinarily disparate population. It takes incredible hubris to want to explain the place. There is room for lots of opinions. But if someone says Sept. 11 was the chickens coming home to roost...
...Labor Party conference last Wednesday was riddled with duplicity on the issue of Iraq. Now almost two years removed from his presidency, perhaps he has merely forgotten the warnings he once delivered and the actions he once took—or didn’t take—to confront Saddam Hussein’s loathsome reign of terror...
...largest media stakeouts since the Chandra Levy case broke. Moose, who served for 27 years (including six as chief) on the Portland, Oregon police force, has some experience with the media, but nothing that could have prepared him for the blunt force of the cameras and microphones that confront him, sometimes four or five times a day, during his 20-hour shifts...