Word: confrontational
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...many people say that they’re not feminist either because of the negative connotations or because feminism has no place here anymore. Whether they want to admit it or not, women still confront inequality and cannot walk down the street without the fear or risk of being violated. The battles fought in the twentieth century may have been successful, but they’re not over. Both women and men alike need to continue to fight for feminism because gender inequity has not disappeared—except perhaps from our national consciousness...
...which we imagined had shown us the depths to which a despot could sink. To watch bin Laden sit in delight and create a skyscraper with his hand--like a child playing Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple--then slowly crumple it into a fist was to confront not only the nature of evil but how much we still don't know about...
...which we imagined had shown us the depths to which a despot could sink. To watch bin Laden sit in delight and create a skyscraper with his hand?like a child playing Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple?then slowly crumple it into a fist was to confront not only the nature of evil but how much we still don't know about...
...were from the beginning a little too impressed. There were endless warnings that making war on a Muslim nation would succeed only in recruiting more enraged volunteers for bin Laden, with a flood of fierce mujahedin going to Afghanistan to confront the infidel. Western experts warned that the seething "Arab street" would rise up against...
...Demonizing a foe and then failing to destroy him can be bad for a nation's morale - witness Saddam Hussein still cropping up on Washington's to-do list a decade after the U.S. marshalled a half million allied troops to confront him in Kuwait. Sure, bin Laden may yet turn up among the corpses or the stragglers of Tora Bora. But if he doesn't, he will have scored a significant short-term propaganda victory and created some major political headaches for Washington...