In 2001, before the Sept. 11 attacks turned him into a wartime president, Mr. Bush grappled deeply with these issues, inviting scientists and ethicists into the Oval Office to discuss them.
Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the timeforced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being.
It's a question I grapple with deeply: Does it make me less queer, or less feminist, to be femme?
Bartley was fresh and provocative not only because of his bedrock belief in freedom but also because of his insatiable curiosity and willingness to grapple honestly and deeply with issues and problems.
Attempts to grapple with this deeply disturbing incident and reestablish a sense of security in the city have been complicated by the fact that the assailants were, according to victim and police statements, apparently of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
It's a divisive issue that forces all of us -- cynics, idealists, politicians and realists alike -- to grapple with a deeply unsatisfactory and dubious political "solution" to a problem that operates beyond the reach of voters and politicians: how do you trust a government that lies, cheats, steals, sidesteps the law, and then absolves itself of wrongdoing to actually obey the law?
But when he read through transcripts from dozens of hours of recorded group meetings, it became clear that they were grappling to understand themselves more deeply.
The narrator is not from a religious family but he is grappling with homophobia in a deeply religious culture that includes check points, revolution, and a deep connection to family.
To recognise that and admit it and grapple with it is deeply disturbing and also deeply cathartic for the organisation.
For a society grappling with inequality and wage stagnation, that's deeply troubling.
