Word: dilemma
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...this one time, in high school, there was this dozy slapper Michelle who was talking shit behind my back, so I made her face-plant during chapel, nicked her boy, and zombied her friends to do my bidding. I digress. Dropping the proverbial H-Bomb? Think about the ethical dilemma of dropping the actual H-bomb. The only exception would be if you dropped the bomb on Gomorrah. Or Baghdad. I’ll leave the comparable horror of nuclear disaster up to your imagination. From the single-tear no-friends tenor of your note, I bet you read...
Especially since, above all things, Bush values loyalty, both to his friends and to his own beliefs. He does not abandon either easily, so these next weeks pose an interesting dilemma. The thing about the wilderness is that if you stay there, you die. That's why the worst week of Bush's presidency actually brought with it a quiet sense of relief among some of his restless aides. "This has wakened them from their notion of infallibility," says a Bush adviser. Those who have been arguing for what would count in this White House as radical change--fresh faces...
...elections in another very important regard: it’s none of our collective business. If an e-mail revealing that a UC candidate with a great deal of potential were behaving unethically made its way accidentally into the hands of a reporter, there would be a legitimate dilemma for those interested in journalistic integrity, and that reporter might well decide it’s in the interest of the electorate to be informed about their potential representatives. Isis is not the UC, however. It’s a social club, and its activities...
...Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World” in 1966. Moore’s earliest scholarship was in the field of Russian politics and power. It was after publishing his 1950 work, “Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power” that Moore joined the Russian Research Center. Even in his earliest days at the Center, Moore was “a kind of synthesizer, a big picture person,” according to Center Director and Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies Timothy J. Colton...
...Harriet Miers represents the Dilemma of the 21st Century Woman, who better to weigh in on the dilemma than Miers’ most caustic critic, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd? In her new book, “Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide,” Dowd grapples with (and documents) the conflicting demands of work, romance, and family, all against the backdrop of a less-than-hospitable cultural climate. As Dowd writes, “Feminism lasted for a nanosecond, but the backlash has lasted 40 years...