Word: confrontive
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...last I heard he is still eligible to wear navy blue in public. But Americans wouldn't let him off the hook that easily. Last week The New Yorker printed his somewhat embarrassing Yale report card, which only added fuel to the fire of skepticism that George W. can confront the sticky politics that come along with the Oval Office. But if he can endure Americans mocking him and publicly doubting his intelligence, then maybe global affairs will be a cakewalk...
...Waiting (Pantheon; 308 pages; $24), is hardly the first man, in or outside of fiction, to wish to end his first marriage and wed the woman he now loves. But rarely, if ever, has such a fellow been bedeviled by the array of obstacles Lin must confront. Not only is he scrupulously moral and thus vulnerable to all the guilty pangs of wayward husbandhood, but Lin's travails occur in a place--Communist China--and during a time--the early 1960s to the early '80s--when literally all occasions conspire against the quest for such a trivial thing as personal...
...after day, match after match, Monica is forced to confront her past. But unlike Jennifer Capriati, who recently pleaded with reporters to leave the past behind, Monica remains honest despite being "tired of the same questions, the same type of questions." Her honesty, perhaps, is the most remarkable part of Monica's personality...
...Monday, the Clinton administration asked the Court to take up a case that could potentially overturn the so-called Miranda ruling, which demands that defendants be read their rights before they give statements to the police. The administration is alarmed over a potential challenge to Miranda, and wants to confront any erosion of civil liberties under its watch. "This is a pretty conservative court on the rights of the accused," notes TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "What we're looking at is an opportunity for them to get tougher on criminal procedural issues...
...everyone is encouraged to become involved in the solution. We will be having an open meeting to discuss this issue, among others, on Wed. , Nov. 17, 4-6 pm, in the Loeb Drama Center; all students are encouraged to attend. Further, anyone who has ideas on how to confront this issue is welcome to contact the HRDC at hrdc@hcs.harvard.edu. Further, we would love to have a more diverse pool of directors, production staff members, and playwrights: applications for spring shows in the Loeb Drama Center will be available in the coming weeks, and anyone with questions about how to apply...