Word: dilemma
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...Guthries, who inhabit the center of progressive evangelical Christian thought. David is a vice president at Word Music, a Nashville Christian music power. Nancy is a publicist whose clients include inspirational author Max Lucado and Anne Graham Lotz, Billy Graham's preaching daughter. Their reaction to their dilemma--their "Christian witness"--presents a window into modern evangelicalism's approach to questions that obsessed Job's author 2,500 years...
...This dilemma may not have occurred to you, and for good reason. Until 1997, there was a one-time lifetime exclusion for capital gains on housing. Financially speaking, moving didn't make as much sense. Now you can get an exclusion every two years. Swarms of homeowners with a collective $4.5 trillion in home equity in the U.S. are bumping up against the new limits. To extend the tax benefit, they must somehow reset the tax-exempt meter to zero, usually by selling their home and buying another...
...life advocates, the moral cost of continuing such research outweighs any potential benefits. For scientists, however, the possibilities are both awe-inspiring and bewildering. No one denies the moral dilemma of the stem cell debate. But to turn back now, researchers say, would be tantamount to turning our backs on a bright, sustaining light because we are terrified of the shadows it creates...
...took the bait, Roth went even further. Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator of The Ghost Writer (1979), seems identical to Roth in everything from his vocation (writer) and faith (Jewish) to his Newark childhood. (Tarnapol at least grew up in the Bronx.) What is more, Zuckerman is facing the same dilemma that Roth did, with considerable attendant publicity early in his career; he has been accused of writing a story involving misbehaving Jews that, other Jews claim, will confirm anti-Semitic prejudices in Gentile readers...
...none of the accused is even in U.S. custody right now, and this administration is unlikely to create a major international crisis in response to an indictment rushed through just before the statute of limitations on the case ran out. But it may serve as a reminder of the dilemma posed for the West by the power struggle in Tehran...