Word: confronting
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...dust floating in the sunlight that streamed through the casement. The morning caressed her stomach and thighs, which, as they usually did, looked perfect. Her head ached. She could not form a coherent thought.But with consciousness came recollection, and the images of the night just past swarmed to confront her: the empty decanter of brandy, her dead turtle Orlando, and, looming above all else, he who had wronged her once again. She could not believe that she had allowed herself to be taken in, that she had allowed him to bring her to the brink of carnal bliss, only...
...country so scarred by its own history of tribal divisions? Life has taught me a hard lesson about the power and impact of that play: my father, who died in 1970, banished me from his life because I played Juliet in a school production that dared to confront the prejudices of my people...
...largest national contingent within a worldwide Catholic Church of 1.1 billion faithful. In recent days, the Vatican has confirmed that on at least one occasion Benedict will specifically address the issue. The Vatican's No. 2 official, Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, told FOX News that the Pope will confront the "open wound" of sex abuse during the April 19 morning mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral for New York-area clergy. It is unclear whether his words will amount to a mea culpa similar to those pronounced by John Paul II back in 2000 for the sins...
...Saturday, two weeks to the day after they faced off in Zimbabwe's general election, President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will confront each other once more at an emergency meeting of regional heads of government in Zambia...
...comparison with funding for the illnesses that confront the developed world, research into disease endemic in the developing world is starved for resources. The World Health Organization estimates that 90 percent of the world’s health-related research addresses only 10 percent of global disease burden, leaving many diseases neglected by the modern research enterprise. These “neglected tropical diseases” (NTDs) include schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis, hookworm, cholera, and malaria, and account for nearly a million and a half deaths per year...