Word: confrontive
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...roiling, starving continent at first seems a backdrop to familiar Le Carré chicanery. Justin has brought his bride Tessa, a fierce do-gooder, to Kenya, where he resumes his job in the embassy and she goes off crusading--to what end, Justin knows not. After her death, he must confront the forces that ended her life and are threatening his. That's when he discovers how genial manners can conceal hearts of darkness...
She’s learning how to balance the challenging workload of the class she is taking, Econ S-10ab, “Principles of Economics,” with the distractions that confront Harvard students, including music in the Square and canoeing on the Charles...
...resisted, arguing that "there are certain people that need to be managed differently than other people. 'Because we believe that administrative assistants need to be at their desk to 'serve' their bosses,'" she says. That issue is not yet resolved, but Thompson says ROWE is forcing the company to confront...
...often tempting to conclude that those who purposely commit suicide in the service of mass slaughter must be sick, evil, not quite human; they are not us. But as investigators pieced together the fragments of the plot that left at least 55 dead, Britons were forced to confront a reality nearly as disturbing as the attacks themselves: the killers were their...
...often tempting to conclude that those who purposely commit suicide in the service of mass slaughter must be sick, evil, not quite human; they are not us. But as investigators pieced together the fragments of the plot that left at least 55 dead, Britons were forced to confront a reality nearly as disturbing as the attacks themselves: the killers were their own. Three of the bombers lived in Leeds, an industrial city in northern England, and had grown up conventionally. All four were Muslims described by associates as amiable and law abiding but whose lives had taken a turn their...