She also did not concede that the newly arrived Bush administration was part of that problem, or that it, too, underestimated what it confronted or was distracted by other issues like tax cuts, China and missile defense.
Consider the following story of organizational resilience, and see what it means to confront reality.
"Reluctant to see what it is they confront", left-liberal types, he feels, have got things wrong.
This was theatre doing what it does best: confronting us with unpalatable facts about our very existence.
Other priests and seminarians said they were skeptical that Gregory has what it takes to confront the vestiges of the McCarrick scandal.
Joschka Fischer in Berlin taught me what it took to confront the terrible silence of postwar Germany and prize loose secrets and habits.
The lesson of "Showboy," which opens today in New York, is how disturbingly easy it is for an audience to trust what it sees when confronted with a film posing as factual documentary.
As I told my good friend Rudy Giuliani, on that dreadful day our hearts went out to you, not only because of the friendship between us, but because, tragically and personally, we both know what it is to confront the evil of terrorism at home.
Do B&C have what it takes to confront these scary and dangerous people, and, if they do, what will going to war take out of them?
You can spread the word about what it takes to confront and beat this terrible disease through your mosques, temples and churches, through your lay people and your women's groups and youth organizations.
