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That is no cycle. That is an arrow. That is action with a purpose. The action began 59 years ago when the U.N. voted to solve the Palestine conundrum then ruled by Britain by creating a Jewish state and a Palestinian state side by side. The Jews accepted the compromise; the Palestinians rejected it and joined five outside Arab countries in a war to destroy the Jewish state and take all the territory for themselves...
...They cited the code of ethics of the American Medical Association and the World Medical Association, both of which condemn the force-feeding of prisoners as an assault on human dignity - so long as they're capable of making an informed decision not to eat. But that's the conundrum: How do you know what is an informed decision at Gitmo? Are detainees there, who are imprisoned in an isolated environment far from their families for an indefinite period, capable of making a rational and autonomous choice to starve themselves...
...Morris says today, despite his pre-interview warning that "One thing I don't like to talk about is sex." In 1972 James underwent a sex-change op and became Jan. The gender switch made headlines around the world, and Morris wrote a bestselling 1974 book about it, Conundrum. Nowadays, hardly anybody brings up the subject. Morris can't tell if the change affected the writing. "There must be a difference, though not in my style. I once went back over all my work to see if the style had changed, and it wasn't apparent that...
This tragic episode causes Mansfield to wonder whether manliness is, ultimately, only valuable as an antidote to the problems that it creates. This is a philosophical conundrum for which Mansfield does not seem to have a clear answer. He recommends that manliness be given “employment” in productive human enterprise so that its destructive impulses are curtailed, but he cannot imagine a solution to the problem of excessive or misdirected manliness...
...World War I, with its senseless slaughter of young European men. She quotes two lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied." In the business world, the issue goes beyond corporate image. Watts points out one big conundrum for firms today: traditional forms of advertising and marketing are proving far less effective than in the past, as skeptical consumers stop believing what the ads tell them. "We appear to be spending more and getting less," Watts concludes...