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Clinton's Diplomacy: The failure to confront evil...
Courses that offer students the chance to gain first-hand exposure to the problem about which they are reading force students to confront ideas critically and with some sense of the consequences these ideas may have on the world...
Bell portrays Harvard Law as "a place that lacks moral leadership," according to the Chronicle. The professor says his purpose in writing the book was to motivate students in elite schools to confront the inequities around them...
Camp Shelter is an ironically named and carefully set stage, away from the everyday world. Phillips' young women not only confront the dangers hidden behind trees and lurking in deep pools, but they also must grapple with complex family lives that are ever present in the narrative. In Phillips' depictions of both city and country life, evil is something children are pushed into by corrupt adults. Buddy's physical humiliation at the hands of his father is compared to the emotional bruises that divorce and neglect inflict on the campers...
JAMES LEE BURKE, WHO WRITES swampy, phosphorescent thrillers about New Orleans (A Stained White Radiance, for example), suffers from a terrible and mostly undeserved reputation for fine writing. Perhaps to confront this slur head-on, he throws in some undeniably lavender flourishes on page 5 of his new best seller, Dixie City Jam (Hyperion; 367 pages; $22.95). "The wind was hot and sere," he reports. And "the sun looked like a white flame trapped inside the dead water." And "an occasional fork of lightning, like silver threads trembling inside the clouds." It's a weather bulletin delivered by choiring angels...