Word: confrontational
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...today’s Harvard women graduate and confront the world of careers, marriages, and children, they too will face the dilemma my mother faced 20-some years ago. Many will choose the life of conference calls and long hours at a desk. Of those who have children in addition to jobs, many will feel constantly worried that they are not giving their children enough time and interest. Those who forgo mothering will sometimes feel the gap of not having children. They will reassure themselves, of course, that their work is more fulfilling than mothering could ever...
...leader, no ideology and no apparent organization, the protests have no discernible direction. Political party leaders had promised that today hundreds of thousands of people would march on the palace and demand Gyanendra's head. Instead, with the palace merely a few miles away, the demonstrators chose to confront the police and army deployed along Kathmandu's ring road, turning it into a circle of fire around the capital. At least three people died when police opened fire on one protest in Kalanki to the southwest, and all afternoon the entire city was wailing with ambulance sirens...
...lacrosse program for a few years seems like nothing compared to what this scandal could do to this university and community. The talk of racism, sexism and binge drinking that has accompanied this case, to a certain extent, has forced the university to look at the big picture - and confront tough issues beyond the alleged rape of a 27-year-old black student at a nearby college...
...with meaning in their lives. It was the season also when the British monarch traditionally speaks to his subjects as a parent on matters close to all their hearts. By radio from Sandringham last week, Elizabeth told her subjects in a warm, clear voice: "Many grave problems and difficulties confront us all, but with a new faith in the old and splendid beliefs given us by our forefathers, and the strength to venture beyond the safeties of the past, I know we shall be worthy...
Back in Cambridge, Cummings and Lake decided that they would return to the Deep South and confront the situation head on. This time, they would return not as activists, but journalists...