Word: conundrum
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Dershowitz is referring to an article he originally published in the Israel Law Review. Tamer than his recent statements, it raises the ethical conundrum of torture without saying how (or whether) torture should be legally justified. But although his 1989 thinking hadn’t evolved to the needles-under-the-nails point, the article does show that the question of torture has long weighed on Dershowitz’s mind...
...political action. But they tend to see many of the groups who practice terrorism as using illegitimate means to pursue goals they consider legitimate, such as ejecting Israel from southern Lebanon (in the case of Hezbollah) or resisting Israel's occuption of the West Bank and Gaza. That conundrum inevitably creates ambiguity in their response to U.S. demands: Lebanon last week refused Washington's entreaties to freeze Hezbollah's assets. Indeed, the U.S. would be hard-pressed to find Arab governments willing to use the word "terrorist" for Hamas or Islamic Jihad, because many Arab leaders see these groups...
...particularly optimistic that the Afghan civil war that began almost a decade ago is going to end any time soon. That makes the definition of victory for the U.S. that much more difficult, particularly as long as bin Laden remains at large, and it makes exit something of a conundrum...
...This is the daunting public relations conundrum of the stem cell researcher: Encourage interest, but manage expectations carefully. The careful balancing act, which has become quite familiar this year, was in evidence again Tuesday when scientists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison announced they had successfully cultivated blood cells from embryonic stem cells...
...potentially explosive political ramifications of such a choice were not lost on Bush?s predecessor. Late in his term, faced with the stem cell conundrum, President Clinton managed to make a decision without actually deciding anything. He declared that federal funding would be provided for research, as long as that funding did not go towards actually extricating the stem cells from the embryos. That left researchers scrambling to find private firms willing to provide cells for federally funded projects...