Word: confrontational
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...fear and the regimen of radiation, I came to re-evaluate my life. I longed for a caring and supportive relationship that was above mere physicality. I thought how comforting it must be to have a marriage with history and meaningful texture, with children raised together--especially when you confront something as horrible as cancer. But I had never understood the sacrifices that were necessary for that kind of relationship. I was of the generation that wanted to have it all--love, career, children. When I was young, I felt so attractive and alluring that I thought, How could anyone...
...focus--including beauty. Twenty-five years ago, if an American painter or sculptor, when asked what he wanted to achieve, had replied "Beauty," he might well have earned a double take as a mere decorator. (Decorators were always "mere" back then.) Art was meant to issue political challenges, to confront convention, et cetera. And a lot of truly lousy, polemical art lay in that et cetera...
...Ponte insisted that "the Serbian people are not on trial here. It is Slobodan Milosevic as an individual who will now face trial." But beginning with Milosevic's arraignment Tuesday, the sheer sensation of the trial will thrust many long-concealed crimes into the light and force Serbs to confront the scope of atrocities allegedly commanded by Milosevic but carried out by ordinary men and women, in their guises as soldiers and paramilitaries. The tribunal's original indictment against Milosevic, issued in 1999, deals with the atrocities committed by Serb and Yugoslav army forces in Kosovo and holds Milosevic responsible...
...proverb that "if you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead." Depression has taught him "what it means to be human, what is good in being human." It has allowed him to come to terms with his terminally ill mother's suicide and forced him to confront his confusion over his sexuality. Solomon apologizes that "no book can span the reach of human suffering." This one comes close...
...Congress for $25 million a year - three times current Spending - to pay for character education. The House and Senate, confident the program will be popular at home, recently upped the funding to $50 million a year. Before we rejoice in the new teaching of virtue, however, we need to confront two problems, one philosophical, the other practical. First, the underlying idea behind the rest of Bush's education package is to give states more flexibility in return for holding them more accountable for performance. That's why Bush wants to streamline federal programs - so he can demand results without telling...