Playing against a chess computer means facing something that doesn't have any nerves; it's like sitting across the table from an IRS agent during a tax audit.
"Now I was facing something that was hard to do from the beginning, which was locking up the homeless without giving them a fair chance".
Scientists are used to confronting things that are not perfect, and they understand that there are limits to measurement, but members of the general population may be facing something that is relatively new to them: that machines make mistakes and humans make mistakes".
And I realized in that moment and that instant, I realized we were facing something that we had never, ever faced before...
That's hardly a surprise; the nation, after all, is facing something that once was a premise to move the plot of Washington potboilers: What is to be done if a President is unstable, and wants to do something truly reckless?
Mr. Benjamin is facing something that Republican leaders in New York would really rather not discuss, at least publicly: the huge lead, financially and politically, that Mr. Schumer holds as he heads into a re-election year.
