Word: dilemma
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...only able to yell and dislodge a cutting board from the table.Galvin's performance as whiny, spoiled and enthralling 17 year-old becomes stereotypical by the second act. The audience knows she is torn by the forces of appearance and desire, and Galvin makes certain that this dilemma is more than clear. Rosen's Kristine assumes the submissive role all too well. These characters are more caricatures than the souls Strindberg so desired. The play becomes increasingly farcical as it comes to its close--avoiding laughter when Jean severs the head of Miss Julie's dear parrot is nearly impossible...
...solution to Gortler's dilemma would seem to be getting another faculty member to teach a second seminar, but in a department with only 12 full-time professors, help is nowhere to be found...
...Israelis will be hoping that the government installed on Wednesday will make their lives safer and the future more predictable. Their desire is understandable - even if there are no grounds to suspect Sharon's government is possessed of any magic bullet to resolve his country's existential dilemma...
...that stark dilemma for most restaveks--slavery or privation--that allows their masters to rationalize the practice as more benevolent than benighted. "She's like a member of our family," insists Micheline Dornevil, 43, whom Ania serves as well as Dornevil's five children. "No, none of this restavek stuff. What we've done is help her." Romer often gets the same response from restavek "hosts" in Miami. "They actually think they're doing a positive thing for these children," she says. "And if they bring them to the U.S., ooh, then they really think they're doing a good...
...planes patrolling the no-fly zones in Iraq were necessary to protect American and British pilots. The continued enforcement of these zones limits the ability of Saddam Hussein to threaten either Kuwait or minorities in the north and south of the country. But missiles alone cannot solve the larger dilemma--what should be done about Iraq...