Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backs of their minds, they suffer. Part of their dilemma seems to be the idea that Harvard students must always be busy or be doing things for themselves. These people view themselves as outcasts, mocked and frightened wherever they go. Everyone knows who they are, and this is the crux of their laundry guilt...
Love and Death on Long Island is a goodshowcase for John Hurt's talents, the prettyperformance of Fiona Loewi and the budding skillsof director, Richard Kwietniowski. It alsopresents an interesting dilemma about how anelderly man reclaims love and youthfulness, but itlacks a sufficient degree of consistent tensionand energy to make this a must...
...first-year, Shah says she found herself in a difficult situation when she was confronted with the dilemma of being pre-med and concentrating in English with honors at the same time...
Starr's fix bears a passing resemblance to that old game-theory staple, the prisoner's dilemma. In that game the suspects in a crime are isolated from one another and invited to cooperate. If they all stay quiet, they'll be O.K., but if anyone confesses, the others go to jail. Each prisoner then has to calculate his own odds by guessing at his accomplices' instincts for self-preservation...
...implying, however, that we all go trotting around in dark alleys proclaiming ourselves invincible. How do we reconcile such theory and practice? I guess figuring out this dilemma is beyond the bounds of this thesis...uh, I mean column...