Word: dilemma
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Alan M. Glazer '96, a former biology concentrator, who is now at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, recalls the dilemma he faced as a high school senior in 1992, when he had to choose between Harvard and Cornell University, which has an established pre-veterinary program and school...
...dilemma facing the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as it meets today in Vienna is not whether to cut production, but how to ensure that the 11 member states and such non-member producers as Norway, Russia and Mexico stick to their agreed cutbacks totaling 1.5 million barrels. Analysts are skeptical over whether Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria and others will avoid the temptation to exceed their new production quotas, which would quickly unravel the agreement -- and even the oil cartel itself. After all, it?s not as if renegades face the prospect of having their legs broken or anything...
...told him about the Arkansas shooting,? says Isaacson. ?He was so upset he couldn't get back to sleep. He called people back in Arkansas to keep talking about it through the night.? Developing a policy response to that tragedy may prove even more complex than the Rwanda dilemma...
Ultimately, what is most admirable about the play is that it does not provide obvious answers to the questions it raises. Writing a two-character work provides Margulies the opportunity to flesh out realistically complex personalities, and the dilemma that results from the course of their relationship has no easy solution. The play asks, who has the right to turn a person's life into fiction? Is Lisa's novel about Ruth's life an act of love or a "theft" of stories which she has no right to appropriate? The answers to these questions are further complicated by statements...
...does communicate the preciousness of stories. Lisa has followed the perennial piece of advice to "write what you know," but Ruth thinks that Lisa has taken this too literally by exploiting the story of her past. Although the rift in their relationship can be contemplated as an ethical dilemma, Margulies makes a stronger argument for the inevitability of literary inheritance. In the end, the play is less about moral principles than about the power of the written word--to bring people together, to unearth hidden stories, and, sometimes, to divide...