Word: conundrum
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...only to find that my host was not home. Stuck without a key card or a companion, I waited until 3 and then made my second trip from the Quad to the Yard, annoyed and disappointed. It was at this very moment of bitterness toward Harvard when the conundrum of the pre-frosh experience became clear to me, distilled into two essential truths: (1) this weekend, with its tours, jams and bashes would not really tell me anything about what my experience at Harvard would be like, and (2) I had no alternative but to make my decision based upon...
...conundrum of memory: Healthier to remember? Surely it is best sometimes to forget--though not to forget Kosovo now. Eventual obliviousness may equally free all sides from the hereditary obligation to hate. I wonder how Bill Clinton and the privileged American tribe will fare in the dark wood of the Balkans. What's happening there now amounts to a religious war between the future and the past. Beware: in that place, the past is a black hole...
...brain manages to think is a conundrum with a millennial time scale. All animals have brains so as to be able to move about. Signals from the senses--eyes, ears, nostrils or skin, as the case may be--send messages to the spinal cord, which moves the limbs appropriately. But thinking involves the consideration of alternative responses, many of which have not been experienced but have been merely imagined. The faculty of being conscious of what is going on in the head is an extra puzzle. A century from now, electronics shops (or websites) will be advertising all kinds...
While the CPD has monetary backing from the federal government and a far-reaching mission statement, its community policing program is facing a conundrum...
...Islamic Republic of Iran is known for denouncing the Great Satan U.S., swearing out fatwas on any renegade soul and defining women's rights as the privilege of wearing a chador. For two decades, Iran has been, notoriously, fascism with a cleric's face. So it is a conundrum and a wonder that the republic has allowed the production of highly sophisticated films that are both touching, in the style of Italian postwar neorealism, and at least implicitly critical of aspects of the ruling theocracy. How do Iran's auteurs pull off this double feat? Frequently, by cloaking grownup stories...