Word: confronted
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Hatred and fear of others is part of this country. The story of America, if one is willing to accept the myth which may or may not have a grounding in reality, is the story of the triumph of inclusion over prejudice. So Kennedy had no choice but to confront those who feared his Catholicism as he did in West Virginia...
Somewhere in the middle, torn by good intentions and unintended consequences, fall the vast majority of people who confront the panhandlers day after day. The encounter is often frightening, always discomfiting, for Americans live in cities full of appalling contrasts: the verminous tenements rub up beside the million-dollar developments; the high-rises tower over the ghettos. It is hard for those who trip on a beggar as they leave a restaurant, where they may have just spent more on a meal than some people earn in a week, to claim that they cannot spare some change. The question, rather...
...most cities the police are too busy to spend their time and manpower hustling panhandlers out of sight. It is left to individuals to decide in private how they are going to confront the inevitable challenge to their daily routines when a beggar crosses their paths, interrupts their reveries or places their subway cars under siege. And for more and more, the decision is no longer automatic. "A lot of people go through a great internal debate every time they're approached for money," says Bob Prentice, San Francisco's ) homeless coordinator. "The hostile people just want...
...solution, say many counselors, is to bring the problem into the open and force couples to confront their behavior. "A lot of violence is accepted as normal," says David Adams, a coordinator of the Dating Violence Intervention Project in Cambridge, Mass. "What we find in talking to high school kids is that they don't characterize a lot of what they're experiencing -- grabbing and slapping -- as violence." In order to raise the consciousness of young daters, the project's acting troupe visits local schools and puts on skits that present alternatives to courtship altercations. For example, a jealous...
Bishops from the fast-growing Anglican churches in Africa and Asia had differing views on women but united to confront the West on other issues. The most striking example was a decision to end long-standing church teaching against the baptism of polygamists. The Africans said the traditional stand cruelly forced converts to abandon their plural wives. Now converts in polygamous societies will be allowed to keep their wives if they forswear further marriages...