Word: confronter
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...step, says Athas, goes straight to the heart of the problem: The sites? authors themselves, most of who seem to be enthusiastic anorexics. "We?re planning to go to the sites and ask the creators to take them down," Athas says. That task - which will force ANAD educators to confront anorexics? infamous defensive talents - is not expected to be easy, or even particularly productive, adds Athas. "Most everyone has told us it will be a waste of our time...
...fear and the regimen of radiation, I came to re-evaluate my life. I longed for a caring and supportive relationship that was above mere physicality. I thought how comforting it must be to have a marriage with history and meaningful texture, with children raised together--especially when you confront something as horrible as cancer. But I had never understood the sacrifices that were necessary for that kind of relationship. I was of the generation that wanted to have it all--love, career, children. When I was young, I felt so attractive and alluring that I thought, How could anyone...
...rioters' thuggery and their attack on their own neighborhood, where he has built up his business for 30 years. He's thinking of organizing other Asian businesses to support the looted white-owned firms. He's doubtful that the rioters had any coherent politics; they showed up downtown to confront a rally by the racist National Front, which was banned, so they turned their Molotov cocktails on the police. Slowly they were pushed back toward his neighborhood, where, he says, "some of them took advantage of a situation that was out of control." But even this pillar of the community...
...comedy about AIDS? What's so funny about a virus for which there is no cure? A: Nothing! Just as there was nothing funny about apartheid. The word comedy is misleading. I don't make jokes about AIDS. I aim to make people laugh at their prejudices and confront their fears. Humor is a great weapon, an extraordinary leveler. You can counter all the misinformation with humor. Q: I assume you're referring to President Thabo Mbeki's controversial stance on AIDS? A: You know, 99% of the world knows that HIV leads to AIDS. We're governed...
...proverb that "if you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead." Depression has taught him "what it means to be human, what is good in being human." It has allowed him to come to terms with his terminally ill mother's suicide and forced him to confront his confusion over his sexuality. Solomon apologizes that "no book can span the reach of human suffering." This one comes close...