Word: confronter
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...there were a string of films that attempted to confront, mock and criticize contemporary politics. Wag the Dog features a White House-recruited Hollywood producer creating a distraction--in the form of a fake war--from a risqu sex-scandal threatening the president on the eve of his re-election. Bulworth recounts the tale of a disenchanted and suicidal political icon who finds solace when he begins to speak the truth--rather than his usual lip service--regardless of the consequences of his offensive, yet candid, remarks. And Primary Colors tells the story of an idealistic political aficionado seduced into...
...addition, the next president must be ready to confront the new threats to national security that have arisen over the past decade. Interest in Africa, for instance, may have waned since Clinton's visit there last year, but the continent remains one of the most politically and economically vexing areas of the world. The Clinton Administration has shown humanitarian concern, pledging money for AIDS treatment (which it rightly recognizes as a national security threat) and debt relief. Bush, on the other hand, has said that Africa, like Yugoslavia, is outside America's sphere of strategic interest...
...others still found that many doctors simply don't want to get involved in a battle that has left the country divided and some of their colleagues dead. They have heard of the doctors and nurses who, when they arrive for work at a clinic, confront protesters who refer to their children by name. "Many doctors feel if someone else provides it, why bother? Somebody else will do it," observes Dr. Lisa Tucker, who works at the Florida clinic where Dr. David Gunn was murdered seven years ago. Experts liken this debate to the one over physician-assisted suicide...
...mifepristone makes abortion morally simple. In fact, some doctors argue the opposite. Carole Joffe, a sociologist of reproductive health and visiting professor at Bryn Mawr College, believes mifepristone could make abortion "more emotionally wrenching because women who take mifepristone experience something like a miscarriage, where they have to confront the product of conception." Women who undergo surgical abortions don't usually see the fetus. With mifepristone, a woman typically passes large blood clots in the toilet within 24 hours after taking the second pill...
...Sydney drew closer, modernist Australians seized on the new millennium as a time to confront their colonial past. Look to Cathy, they said. Freeman accepted the responsibility. One way to consider it is, while Marion Jones was trying to win five gold medals for herself and the greater prosperity of Nike Inc., Freeman's crusade had become cosmic. Even before the gun went off, hers had become the most significant race, in a political sense, since Jesse Owens shredded Adolf Hitler's Aryan showcase at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin...