Word: confrontational
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...Palestinians. Wouldn't the Bush Administration want to see its aid spent on education, health and other sensible human issues rather than have it end up in the hands of corrupt leaders? Toufic H. Barakeh Surbiton, England As if the state of Israel didn't have enough to confront, it now faces having to deal with the terrorist organization Hamas. The group has been condemned for its terrorist acts by the U.S., Canada and the European Union, and it remains to be seen if terrorists can become legislators. A government controlled by Hamas, with its oft stated aim of eliminating...
...Textile Group, who were selling handcrafted scarves, bags, and rugs. An array of fair trade foods, including banana chips, chocolate fondue, and coffee, were offered free to students ripe for a better world. The summit, which ends tomorrow night, is HIDO’s first campus-wide event to confront issues of international development. “We wanted to show that the quality of fair trade products is in fact just as wonderful as non-fair trade products,” said Sarah M. LaFleur ’06, co-director of the IMPACT summit. “They?...
...achieved this goal by devising a number of programs that rewarded high-quality scholarship. More importantly, in his speeches and analyses of problems at that university and in the wider society, he exemplified what it means to be a thoughtful analyst, rather than a glib or judgmental one.Freedman also confronted a crisis on campus: an increasingly malicious publication called the Dartmouth Review. For a time, Freedman followed the advice of others and ignored the excesses of that publication. But when the Review published anti-black and anti-Semitic material and personally attacked both faculty members and Freedman?...
...once you got it out of the basement of the corrections departments, with the people who have been delegated a lot of authority for carrying out executions but are largely invisible to the public, and up to the penthouse of the medical establishment. Now, the public will have to confront an issue they've never really had to face, even though it's been going on for centuries...
...It’s extraordinarily sad that it came to this,” said McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy, one of the Summers critics who emerged from the woodwork to confront the president at an explosive meeting of the full Faculty two weeks...