Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recipe is simple: put a woman in a room with a psycho, and let us watch. If the woman has an ailing daughter for the baddies to terrorize, good. If the man she loves has a dark past and maybe a homicidal kink, better. If she must confront two mad-genius kids, best. Just put our heroine in dire peril before she emerges victorious. It's a lesson in female resiliency. Also, these days, big box office...
...things is the importance in a doctor’s work with a patient for him to understand his patient’s worldview, because unless you understand that aspect of the patient you will not have an understanding of who that patient is and how they will confront illness and death—and all of these other aspects that you would find out if you understood a patient’s worldview. Modern medicine is just beginning to realize that that’s a very important part of a patient’s personal history...
...problem of suffering: if 96 percent of people believe in some kind of intelligent being that’s omnipotent and all-loving, how do you equate that with September 11. How can somebody allow that many innocent people to be slaughtered? How do we confront the fact that we’re not going to be here forever, what Freud calls “the painful riddle of death”? We don’t think about these things, because they make us anxious; but sometimes we wake up at 3am and say “Is there...
First among the many gains that Allston will undoubtedly bring is the ability for the University to hire more faculty and decrease Harvard’s student-to-faculty ratio. Harvard’s deans have consistently tried to recruit more scholars, but have had to confront the reality that there is simply no space available. With careful planning, not only will Harvard find a place to put the scholars it attracts, but the space itself may attract scholars to Harvard. Especially in the sciences, new labs will help the University to compete with other top-tier institutions. These...
...Congressmen and senators will get their backs up when you confront them with the fact that they spend so little time in Washington tending to official business. "We're doing the public's business when we're meeting with constituents, answering our mail or traveling back to our states," they'll insist. Actually, that's not the case. Most of a member's time is spent getting reelected. Congressional staffers tell me privately that as much as three-fourths of their day is spent ensuring that their boss keeps his job. The mail the congressman sends out, the district newsletters...