Abidjan endured a day of tear gas, gunfire and loss on Thursday, as demonstrators confronted well-armed security forces all over the city.
Trying to regulate climate change without touching the meat industry is like trying to curb the obesity crisis without confronting, well, the meat industry.
To be sure, most of these pieces are more concerned than convinced that there actually is a technology bubble, but in some ways, these are the strangest offerings of all, since they are forced to confront, well, facts.
Ordinary people today confront well-financed, sophisticated organizations capable of carpet-bombing the public with insistent one-way exhortations.
By Alex Ross In the Roaring Twenties, Leopold Stokowski made the great Philadelphia Orchestra a quasi-avant-garde vehicle, confronting well-heeled audiences with the sculptured dissonances of Edgard Varèse.
But military officials say the Kaibiles are the best force to confront well-armed drug gangs, many of them counting ex-soldiers in their ranks, and contend that only a relative few have turned out bad.
For soldiers defending a toehold in the most violent area of Baghdad with often unsteady Iraqi troops the idea of confronting well-armed militias with fewer troops seemed almost unfathomable.
Perhaps you, too, feel a sense of "rightness" when confronted by, well, confrontation.
The reasons -- like having to rebuild the Afghan Army from scratch and differing allied priorities related to developing a national Afghan police corps -- say much about the very different circumstances each program has confronted, as well as how American trainers in both countries are trying to learn from one another's mistakes and successes, senior Army commanders said.
Fukuyama is perfectly right to urge that these encrustations be stripped off; and reform of lobbying and campaign finance wouldn't hurt either (though there are deeper problems to be confronted as well: the breakdown of party discipline and the erosion of seniority).
Strategy is challenged every day, and only a strong leader can remain on course when confronted with well-intentioned ideas that would deviate from the company's strategy.
