Word: confrontational
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With a writers’ strike deadline looming at midnight Tuesday, America’s movie and television industries have been forced to confront the legitimate demands of screenwriters for a greater stake in the entertainment business. A different industry merits a new contract, and we support the members Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) in their demands for a fair share of revenues as well as additional credit and creative control. Though the industries have thus far expressed little willingness to compromise, in the interests of consumers and of the many others employed by Hollywood who will...
...precisely that reluctance to confront the bigger questions over the Vietnam War that will make Kerrey's revelations has proved so troubling to many...
...West’s insistence on extradition is based on three misconceptions. First, most Western officials who push for Milosevic’s extradition are willing to admit the need for the Serbian people to confront their recent past, but underestimate the extent to which moving the trial to another country undercuts any such attempt. Second, it is argued that moving the trial to the Hague would serve as a deterrent to ethnic violence elsewhere, which is a weak argument indeed; if that were true, the Nuremberg trials should have served as a deterrent to the war criminals...
...Joseph McCarthy, Associate Dean of the Kennedy School, said he expects Card will not address specific policy issues he might confront within the Bush administration but instead speak about "the rewards, tangible and intangible, of a career in public service...
...proud to have been part of the anti-war movement. It was a mass movement, supported by a significant percentage of the students of the time. Even so, it was easier for many of us to vent our rage within and against (relatively) blameless universities than to confront the military and governmental institutions that were largely responsible...