Word: confrontive
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...four teams finishing tops at the tournament will proceed to the Eastern Championships, where they will confront the top four teams from the Southern division, with Navy posing the biggest challenge...
While I agree with Allen that we as Asian men have to live with some rather vicious stereotypes, and that few models of heroic Asian men exist in the mainstream American media, I think that he is losing sight of an important point: in the process of confronting what the mainstream does to us (and to all of our brothers and sisters in the community of color), we should not forget that we also have a responsibility to Asian women to acknowledge, confront and overcome sexism within the Asian community. These two tasks cannot be prioritized, one over the other...
...second year medical student Patty K. Lee, one of the event's organizers, "part of the motivation for the conference is that there is a large proportion of Asian Americans represented in the medical field and in research, but a disproportionate amount of discussion about concerns and things that confront Asian Americans...
...herself. Jeanne Smoot and Erin Scott sometimes seemed stilted as they attempted to appear matronly. Leslie Yahia was too hyperactive to be convincing as an angry and burnt out single mother. All of the women were far more real when they were delivering comic lines than when trying to confront serious issues in their characters' lives...
...rather not see, and make us acutely aware of the cost of any level of denial. One of Bogosian's characters scoffs, "the world is a complicated place and trying to understand it ain't gonna make it any less complicated." Trying to understand the world Finley and Bogosian confront us with may not make our lives any less complicated, but it may make them a little more humane...