Word: conundrum
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...left Edinburgh because I had too much time with too little to do--a now enviable conundrum. Yet my letter writing has not ceased with my return. Every once in a while, when the stress of Harvard keeps me from sleeping and I find myself with a few unaccounted for hours in the wee morning, I return to my old habit. I face down a blank screen and churn out a letter. I have productive insomnia. I have victims...
Sophomores Karen Goetze and Ian Carswell--natives of France and Canada, respectively--found themselves in this latest NCAA-conjured conundrum March 11 at the RCA Dome in the Indianapolis...
...suffers of indecisiveness, even the most routine situation can present a baffling conundrum...
Congress, meanwhile, managed to achieve its own paralysis. ``The reality is members of Congress didn't want to do this,'' an Administration official says. ``And the reality is also, if you question them closely, they didn't want it to fail. And so we had this conundrum of, How do you pass something that can't pass, which everyone wants to succeed...
...most obvious way out of the conundrum is to skip over the contradictions of the interim phase and move directly to negotiations on a final settlement, which are supposed to begin in little more than a year. That idea is under consideration by Rabin's government. Israel would seek to inflate its borders to include many of the settlements and would probably offer the Palestinians full statehood in the remnants. Sa'eb Erakat, Arafat's minister of local government, says the Palestinians are ready to move straight to a final resolution. The P.L.O. will insist on nothing less than...