Word: dilemma
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...their extended families; the sense that they weren't "full" members in any racial community; the insecurity and self-loathing that often resulted from feeling marginalized on all sides. That simple but harsh playground question - "What are you?" - torments many multiracial kids. Psychologists call this a "forced-choice dilemma" that compels children to claim some kind of identity - even if only a half-identity - in return for social acceptance...
...Journal of Social Issues paper suggests this dilemma has become less burdensome in the age of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama. The paper's authors, a team led by Kevin Binning of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Miguel Unzueta of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, studied 182 multiracial high schoolers in Long Beach, Calif. Binning, Unzueta and their colleagues write that those kids who identified with multiple racial groups reported significantly less psychological stress than those who identified with a single group, whether a "low-status" group like African-Americans or a "high-status" group like whites...
...powers of the presidency also poses a key dilemma for Khatami. Supporters of his reform movement had been disillusioned during Khatami's two terms of office from 1997 until 2005, as clerical conservatives - backed by Ayatollah Khamenei - blocked most of his efforts to create a more open society...
...only the broadest, brightest strokes. For a movie trying to revive interest in one of rap’s most storied and complicated figures—a movie trying to give Biggie life after death—“Notorious” is rather lifeless. The toughest dilemma that biopics face is deciding where to crop the canvas of their subjects’ lives, and “Notorious” solves this problem by deciding not to crop at all. After opening with Wallace’s death, the film breezes through his childhood in Brooklyn?...
...market, and most of them do their job well enough, alchemizing dense scientific jargon into prose digestible to the lay reader. The majority of today’s writer-activists, however, are in the mold of journalist Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” Pollan lays out the case against modern agribusiness in a very persuasive, prescriptive way. But he still argues solely at the level of the intellect, and reason—as any economist or Exxon exec knows—can just as easily be turned to the defense...