Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those who immodestly claimed to Know It All have Wiped Us Out. The problems we face are too fierce to accommodate arrogance. Humility leaves room for complexity, honors honest dissent, welcomes the outlandish idea that sweeps past ideology and feeds invention. We want to reimagine the health-care system, confront climate change, save our kids from a financial avalanche? The odds are much better if we come to the table assuming we don't already have all the answers...
...novel follows Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural historian who sets out to uncover his origins and early childhood—a curious void in his memory—after suffering a mental breakdown. His journey leads him to confront the dark heart of European history. In this, his final novel, author W.G. Sebald synthesizes multiple literary genres: “Austerlitz” is at once autobiography, history, travelogue, and meditation. It’s publication in 2001—mere months before his death in a car accident—echoed the sentiment of closure, or the struggle for some...
...time my quarantine was over, I was happy that I’d gotten to have such a unique college experience. Admittedly, the being alone on the verge of death part wasn’t great, but it did help me confront a lot of my deepest fears, and for that I’m forever grateful...
...within it a significant warning. The U.S. has operated as if the elements of a peace deal on the Palestinian side - with a pliant leadership that is politically dependent on the U.S. and an administrative and security apparatus that is ready to suppress the more radical elements seeking to confront Israel - would remain in place, passively waiting for a better day on the Israeli side. Now, however, Washington has moderated its demands on the Israelis, mindful that there's a line beyond which the Israeli government says it will not go. Abbas' statement on Thursday, stunt...
...years that have elapsed since the last election for City Council members, Cambridge has worked to confront an ongoing achievement gap in its public schools and a continuing discrimination lawsuit involving the city manager, as well as the local fallout of the national economic crisis...