Word: confrontive
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...Whatever challenges confront the new press secretary - who is likely to be Fleischer's deputy, Scott McClellan - they will all be framed in the context of the approaching 2004 election. Always nervous that the president's official duties will seem politically motivated, the White House wants to conceal any outward appearance of striving for victory while working robustly behind the scenes to do just that. No one will have to maintain this balance more than the new resident behind the podium. In 2000, Bush's team tried to keep the press at bay, much as it does in the White...
...have not demonstrated that you are responsible, and we have the statistics on binge drinking to prove it.” Yet binge alcohol is the symptom of a larger problem: a campus without commitment to designing safe student party environments. It’s time to confront this problem head-on with creative thinking from both students and administrators...
...adopted the roadmap, but insisted they can't take any steps to implement it before Israel also signs on. But Israel wants President Bush to make a number of substantial changes and insists the priority is the ongoing terror threat and the failure of the Palestinian Authority to confront it. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has made clear he has no interest in embarking on a road to Palestinian statehood as long as violence continues...
...Presidents are either mysterious or unmysterious. Among the uncomplicated, unmysterious characters: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. The others--Roosevelt himself, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton (the jury is still out on George W. Bush)--confront a historian with odd opacities of character: neuroses, compulsions, contradictions or (in the cases of Roosevelt and Reagan) an impenetrable geniality. Reagan's biographer Edmund Morris concluded that the man's apparent depthlessness was itself an enigma, a kind of blank, like the whiteness of the whale...
Panelist Alex S. Jones called Blair’s behavior “absolutely appalling,” and called on the press to confront the credibility issues it raises head...