Word: dilemma
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When Rubin appealed, a Florida appellate court backed up Judge Shapiro. The court acknowledged the "serious dilemma" posed by Rubin's responsibility to his client and his conflicting duty to protect the integrity of the judicial system. But it agreed with Shapiro's decision not to let Rubin walk away from the case. Its proposed solution: Rubin could allow the "defendant to take the stand and deliver his statement in narrative form," decline to "elicit the perjurious testimony by questioning," and refuse to "argue the false testimony during closing argument." Following these guidelines, the court assured Rubin, would fulfill...
...Rubin's dilemma has dogged lawyers and courts since the beginnings of the legal profession. "It is an unchallenged rule of professional ethics that a lawyer may not put on a witness who he knows is going to lie," explains Law Professor Phillip Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley. When the lying witness is the attorney's own client, however, the rule runs smack into another fundamental ethical rule -- a lawyer's obligation to protect the confidentiality of his client's conversations. Legal scholars have tilted back and forth over the issue. The currently prevailing view, endorsed...
...growing more receptive to the idea of change. Though they are still a long way from accepting the principle of majority rule, he believes, "they are coming to the conclusion that something is drastically wrong. There is a growing realization that this country has to be shared." The dilemma South Africa's whites face is that if they do not soon find a way of bringing such sharing about, violence and bloodshed may destroy what they are trying to hold...
Plays about sports are risky business for both writer and producer. Pleasing both die-hard sports fans and regular theater goers can be a playwright's dilemma. The fan demands a high-degree of authenticity, complete with credible gestures, jargon and appearance. While regulars require a plot offering more than instructions on how to throw a fork-ball...
Perhaps my father's words of advice to me before I left for college seem to be the best solution to the dilemma Harvard presents. "You'll do well," he said, "If you dress British but always think Yiddish...