Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hershey's performance captures Roth's dilemma with the blend of severity and tenderness it deserves. When she is arrested and refuses to look back as her child cries, "Mommy, don't go," the viewer knows it is only because she refuses to show she can be beaten. Arch in the interrogation scenes, convincing as a professional and warm in relations with family members, Hershey's Roth only marginally overdoses on the emotional...
...problems are growing because there are more homeless, more AIDS victims, more drug addicts, more prisoners, more garbage, more toxic waste. The result is budget-busting pressure for more services that many people do not want in their vicinity. But beyond the fiscal debate, there is a painful ethical dilemma for many communities: Who should bear the burden of the common good? As often as not, neighborhoods are rising up to resist responsibility, and in some cases are turning to violence. "Too often we assume that the human being can achieve a good life without attending to the collective good...
...except Secord. That means their testimony cannot be used against them in a trial. But since the four are charged with conspiracy, each defendant has the right to use statements of his coconspirators that might show his own innocence. Last week Gesell ruled that the way out of this dilemma is to hold four trials. A jury thus could listen to immunized testimony that might help the defendant on trial in one case, while this testimony could not be used in the trial of the man who gave...
...This dilemma was evident in the November revelation that Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 had attempted to swap a $500,000 gift in exchange for University Officer status. The K-School, with only a small pool of alumni but ever-expanding programs, badly needed the money to bolster the school's loan forgiveness program. Administrators let the demands of fundraising overshadow Harvard's ethical guidelines...
Members of the committee said they were open to a variety of approaches to the minority faculty dilemma, but agreed with administrators that quotas are not a practicable solution. Pforszimer University Professor Sidney Verba, the chairman of the committee, said his group would consult with faculty, department chairmen and student groups before making any policy prescriptions...