Word: confronting
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...many students at Harvard have chosen to engage. Hundreds protested the invasion of Iraq in 2003, because the lives of thousands of Iraqis and young Americans were worth it to them. Some hurled themselves into election campaigns. Others campaigned to call attention to genocide in distant Darfur or to confront injustices closer to home...
...training before they are allowed to come face-to-face with a terrorist," followed by supervised fieldwork before they can direct an interrogation. Detainees are also questioned by subject-matter experts - analysts who may have been following a terrorist's bloody career for years before getting the opportunity to confront their target in person...
...might get away with the crime. With 52% Russians supporting the slogan "Russia for Russians," and with many increasingly sympathetic to those who attack immigrants, the courts may well be lenient. "Racist attacks happen with shocking regularity in Russia, and the government is shirking its responsibilities and failing to confront the problem," Amnesty International said in its May 2006 report on hate crime in Russia. According to the Moscow Human Rights Bureau, racists murdered 10 people last year and 18 in the first half of this year, not incluing the ten people killed by the Cherkizovo market bomb...
...holed up in the Iranian embassy in Beirut--which may have secret tunnels leading to Nasrallah's now destroyed headquarters. But within Lebanon, his coziness with foreign patrons is a liability. A senior Lebanese official tells TIME that as soon as the fighting stops, Lebanese political parties plan to confront Nasrallah with demands that Hizballah hand over its weapons and accept the primacy of the Lebanese government, as demanded by the Security Council...
...rising costs, labor shortages and aggressive competition. Chinese employers "cannot forever have cheap labor," says Hong Liang, chief China economist at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. "They cannot just count on low-cost manufacturing." Soon the entire Chinese economy may be faced with the painful transition Shenzhen must confront today. Shenzhen is "trying to do what the country needs to do," says Chipscreen's Lu. Perhaps this hard-working, ever-mutating city will provide the answer for China, once again...