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...ruling that as a foreigner convicted of a violent crime, Mesbah must be expelled. Mesbah's supporters say ministry officials have privately acknowledged the case merits revision, but don't want to establish a precedent that will raise questions about other expulsions. That leaves Mesbah in a double bind - still facing deportation even after his full 12-year sentence is done...
Charles A. Moose is in a bit of a bind. As Montgomery County Police Chief, Moose wants desperately to identify the sniper who has terrorized the Washington D.C. suburbs for the past eight days, most recently killing a man at a Virginia service station. But this strong-willed, inveterate leader wants to do it his way - a tall order when you consider the masses of media, federal police and FBI agents swarming around each new crime scene - and second-guessing every move that's made. For his role as the unofficial spokesman for the sniper investigation, Charles Moose...
...great magnitude." Trouble is - as with many other banned substances, like human growth hormone - it is almost impossible to test for genetic or cell doping. To detect cell tinkering, for example, would likely require a biopsy. This leaves enforcement bodies, always one step behind the drug cheats, in a bind. Do they risk their credibility by ignoring the issue, or do they risk it by acknowledging a problem for which they have no detection methods and no solution? As always with drugs in sport, it's a no-win situation...
...Three” schools were all early action, the next tier of selective schools—the ones who derive the greatest benefit from early decision—would be hard-pressed to continue with the system. There would be little incentive for students to bind themselves to a “second-tier” school if they could apply early to Harvard, Princeton and Yale, and still keep all their options open for regular decision...
...country, is feeling some pain. "The economy bothers me," says waitress Melissa Hart, as she serves up a foot-long chili dog at Town Pump, a Little Rock suds-and-sandwich shop. "It is sucking. And we need some change." That kind of attitude puts Hutchinson in a bind. Pryor notes, for instance, that the Republican has repeatedly voted against raising the minimum wage. Hutchinson counters that expanding the earned-income tax credit would be a better way to help the working poor, but he acknowledges that it's a complex argument: "Voters don't want to hear an economics...