Word: confrontive
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...next few weeks the President will have to make a decision on whether or not to sell advanced weapons systems to Taiwan, most notably Aegis Cruisers, which will improve Taiwan’s ability to confront the enhanced Chinese missile threat. In the interests of ensuring peace and defending a democratic nation against a totalitarian bully, Bush should go ahead with the sale. Especially in light of this newest controversy, it appears that China’s hard-line military leaders are increasingly influential in areas of foreign policy. Selling Taiwan weapons for the express purpose of defense against Chinese...
...connection that LHO makes to Harvard Square, although very successful in the physical sense, does not quite achieve the ironic goals of the adaptation. Although the production would like to confront its Harvard audience and its treatment of the poor, it fails to take full advantage of proximity of Rodolfo, Marcello, Mimi and the others to their counterparts in the Ivory Tower. The underground “apartment” that the four men share in the Harvard MBTA stop is the only scene which seems to speak directly to the Harvard elite. Unfortunately, the powerful image and sentiment conveyed...
...were the big fish in a small pond," Woodruff said. "Everyone's had to confront the reality of not being that when they got here...
...Hague, insisting that he be tried in Serbia for alleged crimes including corruption and abuse of power. Yet the Milosevic government’s atrocities against Muslims in Bosnia and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo are crimes against humanity, not only against the laws of Serbia, and he should confront his accusers in the international tribunal...
...support Ann Ginger and encourage the continuation of her efforts to force Harvard to confront its Cold War legacy and its treatment of her late husband. Harvard should not allow obstinacy to cloud common sense. Though the current Board of Overseers is not responsible for Harvard’s actions in the 1950s and can in no way compensate Ann Ginger for events of the past, it does have the power to give her the apology that she deserves...