Word: conundrum
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...also appears to have confirmed Bremer's view that a valid poll can't be held before year's end. More importantly, Brahimi also indicated that most Iraqis share Washington's concern to restore their sovereign authority by July 1. Asked about how he plans to resolve the conundrum of to whom the keys should be handed on June 30, Bremer indicated last weekend that he was waiting for the UN's recommendations...
...back to "Prices will go up at your local Wal-Mart." Citizen Dean is now on record in favor of higher taxes and higher prices. This is either refreshingly candid, remarkably courageous or stupendously boneheaded--perhaps a bit of all three. And it leaves me with a real Dean conundrum. After a year of exposure to rampaging Deaniocracy, I still can't figure...
...have recurring nightmares about the 2,000 Italian vocab words you’ve been ignoring all semester? Is that stack of untouched Bio 50 flashcards only getting higher? No, resigning yourself to a Government concentration is not the only option. The solution to your memory conundrum may be a mere Toys R’ Us away, according to 15-year-old Andy L. Camann...
...It’s a bit of a conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively...
...Donnell is the underdog in this battle, since she has admitted she never read the contract she is contesting (which gave Brewster veto power over her decisions). But beyond the legal dispute is a conundrum about the nature of fame. What is that fragile commodity called celebrity? Who is "Rosie...