Word: awkwardness
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...disagreement between NACAC and Princeton and Brown puts counselors in the awkward position of choosing a side in the dispute when confronted with a student who wishes to apply early to either Brown or Princeton as well as an Early Action school such as Harvard...
...Hussein with little choice but to do what he rarely does: concede something. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Iraq announced that after four years of blowing off inspections, it was now ready to submit to them "without conditions." That left the war camp in an awkward dilemma. Can you convince the world it needs to get rid of a bully if the bully suddenly appears to be playing nice? And it left those less than eager for an invasion with the responsibility to prove exactly what, if anything, Saddam has conceded...
...that the mere presence of such groups promotes promiscuity, many disagree, as long as tolerance and understanding—not exploration and promotion—are the focus of their missions. The GSA fits the profile of a program that is beneficial to adolescents. Sexual development is difficult and awkward for all teenagers. Those students contemplating their sexuality are often put in an even more uncomfortable situation...
...driver during the recent trip to Baghdad, the Iraqis picked up no other expenses. "I've said that no one has backed up any allegations that Iraq has constituted weapons - of - mass - destruction (WMD) capability with anything that remotely resembles substantive fact." Perhaps most awkward for the U.S. is Ritter's concession that Iraq had legitimate complaints about unscom inspectors being used as spies. "The U.S. had a track record of putting pressure on the weapons - inspections program during my entire seven years there," he says. "Everyone has focused on the struggle of the inspectors versus Iraq...
...entire nation is focused today on the dead so that we, the living, might continue to ignore an unpleasant truth. That truth, the awkward secret lurking behind this day’s solemn pomp, is that the dead of last September died for no reason at all. The search for meaning, what might crassly be called “closure,” is doomed to fail. These dead have died in vain...