Word: conundrum
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...conundrum for an Administration that considers foreign affairs a sideshow is that its policies require deeper thought and more salesmanship now that the communist menace has evaporated. Clinton is still looking for an easy grade on international studies: that the U.N. will coalesce around U.S. preferences, that there will be obvious connections between his foreign forays and voters' wallets, that foreign crises won't mess up his watch. But at home ^ and abroad, as Bosnia shows, consensus on hard problems means tough choices and firm leadership. The world expects and wants that from Washington, a legacy Clinton must live...
...than the crude Kentucky Straight. At its heart, The Same River Twice is touchingly human. Offutt's honest, self- effacing style seduces the reader with its openness. Twenty-five centuries ago, Heraclitus asserted that you cannot step into the same river twice. Offutt, too immerses himself in the old conundrum of change and decay. His story springs from time-honored tradition and flows it course with a river's enchanting elegance...
...even if MACHOs are found, they are unlikely to resolve the dark-matter conundrum. Physicists have calculated that there is an absolute limit to the amount of ordinary matter in the universe. If dark matter adds up to more than that -- as last week's announcement and other new findings suggest it might -- then at least some of the dark matter must be made of something different from the matter we know...
...CUSTODY CONUNDRUM...
...story had elements to push almost anyone's emotional buttons. The Oedipal tinge of an affair between an adolescent and a man old enough to be her father. The Fatal Attraction echoes of a woman who supposedly would stop at nothing to possess the man she craved. The perennial conundrum of how a daughter from a nice and prosperous family might have gone so thoroughly wrong. New York City's three tabloid newspapers have covered the "Long Island Lolita" story with a thoroughness and imagination that they rarely bring to stories about the city's politics or its $29 billion...