Word: dilemma
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What's an editor to do when a word favored by the road rage brigade finds itself uttered by a presidential candidate? Print it or take a more blushing-bride approach? That was the dilemma faced in newsrooms all over the country Monday when George W. Bush, while proclaiming that he wants to run a G-rated, family-friendly campaign, was overhead making making distinctly PG-13 comments to his running mate, Dick Cheney, about Adam Clymer, a New York Times reporter covering the event...
...soon, that won't deter Governor Bush from mercilessly beating up on the Clinton administration's ambivalence over the system. And the latest leaked intelligence finding by the nation's spy agencies is less likely to help President Clinton make up his mind than it is to exacerbate his dilemma...
...mixed blessing," he says. "Some folks will say, there's George and Barbara's son, he must be interesting, let me listen. Others may say, he's not done anything in his life, just running on his daddy's name." Wead's report spelled out the dilemma that W. faced after his father took office: "It may seem that the President's children can do nothing right. Try something great, and appear grandiose and presumptuous. Try to lead a normal life, and appear lazy or unambitious. Try something artistic, and offend those who believe in causes. Any success will...
Nobody but a rabbi would have dared describe the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust as the reincarnated souls of Jewish sinners. Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Ovadia Yosef did just that last weekend, bringing down a rain of criticism. But although his controversial remarks speak to the theological dilemma the Holocaust poses for ultra-Orthodox Jews, they are also an eloquent comment on the depth of tribal enmity among the citizens of the Jewish state. Iraqi-born Rabbi Yosef is also the spiritual leader of Israel's third largest party, Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party representing Sephardic Jews, who immigrated...
...would say that legalized abortion is itself a state-sanctioned execution.) But what is the alternative to allowing that choice? The continued chipping away at Roe v. Wade. Instead of stripping female prisoners of their identity as human beings and making decisions for them, we could avoid this awful dilemma by taking much more basic action and abolishing the death penalty altogether...