Word: confrontational
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...meeting with Rudenstine is only one of several steps the BSA has taken to confront Mansfield. The group has also submitted an editorial to the Crimson, staged a sit-in during one of Mansfield's classes and scheduled meetings with other Harvard administrators...
...serious issues of distribution and social stratification, questions of homogeneity, and further repercussions, perhaps as wide-ranging as those of industrialization, that we cannot yet predict. Perhaps, in the end, genetic engineering will need to be banned. But there is nothing uniquely apocalyptic about genetic engineering, and we must confront it in the same way we should confront every new development: with our ethics clear and our eyes open...
...With a teenager's clear-eyed logic, Suman maintains that it is the parents who are least willing to confront that reality. "The children from Olofstorp don't have a bad attitude toward us; it's mostly the parents," she says. "They say that if the Swedish children don't form a joint class here, they will move them to another school." At the same time, she recognizes that the "Swedish" people are an integral part of Hjällboskolan. "You can't have a school with only immigrants," she explains, "because then the immigrants will be talking their...
...almost glowing, and it makes an ironic comment on a harrowing narrative. More important, her manner may grant Bergman something he cannot grant himself--forgiveness for bad behavior that has haunted him for a half-century. "He wants a woman's vision," says Ullmann, "a woman's experience...to confront...
...offices at the Justice Department Friday, making the rounds and shaking hands. While aides don't expect his first day on the job to be much more than ceremonial, they insist Ashcroft is raring to get down to work and leave his bitter confirmation battle behind him. "I will confront injustice by leading a professional Justice Department that is free from politics; that is uncompromisingly fair," the new AG said in written remarks released Friday...