Word: confrontational
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...infinitely more complicated when a couple makes friends as a couple and there are no clear loyalties. For starters, many married people read the divorce of close friends as a threatening act. It breaks the cocoon that surrounds the foursome. The intact couple sometimes doesn't want to confront the fact--or let each other see--that there's life after divorce. The now separated friend becomes a third wheel on outings. And, suggests matrimonial lawyer Robert S. Cohen, many wives feel threatened by newly single women in their midst. Finally, people don't know what...
...crimes, the petition states, “We find the recent attacks on Israeli citizens unacceptable and abhorrent. But these should not and do not negate the human rights of the Palestinians.” We are all familiar with the strategy of damning with faint praise; here we confront the strategy of faint condemnation. A condemnation this perfunctory, this ritualistic, so immediately abandoned, condemns nothing and no one. The thought seems to be, “Ideally, Palestinians would not be killing them; but we cannot allow the fact that they are killing them to divert our gaze...
That is, in my reading, we confront here a world-view that assigns greater moral value to the lives of some human beings—Palestinian civilians—than to the lives of others—Israeli civilians (not all of them Jews, to be sure). Here the petition’s rhetoric is simply shameful, its dehumanizing effects thoroughly offensive. Yet again, Summers got it right: anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...
Along with the rest of the state, Cambridge education officials must also confront the imminent repercussions of Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), which will be come a high-school graduation requirement next year...
...climbed into a waiting car. Denunciations of the ruling were immediate, and the Justice Ministry has promised an appeal - though it's unlikely to succeed since the ruling is in line with the new law. Not only does Papon's release raise questions about France's willingness to confront accusations of recurrent anti-Semitism, it also suggests inequity in the justice system. Klaus Barbie, Germany's wartime head of the SS in Lyon, and pro-Nazi French militia leader Paul Touvier were both allowed to die of cancer in prison during the 1990s. But neither of those men had friends...