Word: confrontational
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...these images of a kind of animal holocaust have generated a lot of unease. And of course you have to confront the reality that all of these animals would have been slaughtered anyway, at some point, to get them to your dinner table. So it's certainly making people think about what and how they eat. For the farming communities, the trauma has been the deepest. They're paralyzed, depressed. Suicides are up. By some estimates, almost one third of all livestock farmers will quit after this. Farmers are a tiny proportion of the British population, but England feels very...
Next, officers are invited to talk about the things they have done that violated the dignity of others. Role-playing exercises require them to step into a suspect's shoes. Over the course of three days, the cops, most of whom are shift commanders, are forced to confront themselves and their past. In one session, a police officer from El Salvador admitted that his superiors told him a prisoner he was escorting should be killed. "I got a hero's medal for murder," he told the stunned class...
Your description of the deplorable situation in Afghanistan's refugee camps stunned me [WORLD, March 5]. In addition to suffering the effects of a three-year drought and U.N. sanctions, Afghans must confront human-rights abuses and appalling treatment of women. Given these factors, why should the world fail to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan just because it houses a hated enemy of the West? To hell with Osama bin Laden. We cannot justify victimizing millions because of one terrorist. We must help the Afghans, and we will. SAVI MULL Lucknow, India...
...gestures on the parts of Merck and Bristol-Meyers are certainly steps in the right direction, but there must be further action to confront this deadly crisis. We urge governments in developed countries to help finance prevention, education and treatment efforts for the more than 25 million Africans suffering from AIDS, and we call on the drug companies to continue lowering their prices to facilitate this end. The solution must also include significantly greater funding for public research groups such as the National Institute of Health, which would have different incentives than private corporations and which would not oppose...
Next, officers are invited to talk about the things they have done that violated the dignity of others. Role-playing exercises require them to step into a suspect's shoes. Over the course of three days, the cops, most of whom are shift commanders, are forced to confront themselves and their past. In one session, a police officer from El Salvador admitted that his superiors told him a prisoner he was escorting should be killed. "I got a hero's medal for murder," he told the stunned class...