Mr. Obama first expressed concerns about the cost of the new helicopters shortly after he took office in 2009, when Senator John McCain of Arizona, who had been his Republican opponent in the presidential race, confronted him at a conference on fiscal responsibility.
But the 2016 race confronts Illinois voters with uncommon dangers, because so many candidates are playing with fire.
In our generation, as people of many religions and races confront more insidious bigotry, a symbolic reading of Exodus and Esther teaches the need to respond with nonviolent fierceness.
To the Editor: Your article forced me to think about how the culture of poverty might develop as it spreads from black urban ghettos, where the term was first applied, and begins to take root throughout the country as people of all races confront increasing national poverty, unemployment, inequality and the fading away of the middle class — conditions that seem likely to persist for a long time.
Many people are afraid to talk about race and confront the difficult issues it may present.
But some experts note that checking options like Asian and white, or American Indian and Pacific Islander, does not carry the same historical baggage that mixed-race blacks confront in deciding whether to say they are part white.
There are murmurs of discontent before someone shouts, "They're burning the flag!" Cottrell runs off stage, joining the tide of outraged patriots that races to confront the counter-demonstrators doing the burning, their fury amplified by the counter-demonstrators' taunts.
After the race, Tony Stewart confronted Logano, who had blocked him out of a late restart.
It was an attempt to take control of the race before confronting his biggest test in the first Southern primary.
That interdependence, created when both were partners in the Soviet Union's Cold War-era arms race, now confronts an independent Ukraine with a strategic conundrum: How to keep legions of local defense industry workers employed when their output can end up in the hands of separatists waging war — often with weapons supplied by Russia — against the government in Kiev.
