Word: dilemma
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Unlike most of his current colleagues, but paralleling my own pre-college dilemma, Buswell chose Harvard over a music conservatory, believing that a “Harvard education develops a certain kind of critical intelligence, which stays with you throughout your life...
While Democrats are relishing Frist's dilemma, Republicans are wondering how he will maneuver his way out of it. "It's a tricky game that Frist has to play," says a Republican staff member, as the Senate majority leader attempts to straddle the line between compromise and resolve. "I will talk to the Democratic leadership," Frist said last week, but added that "our obligation is [to] take these judicial nominees and to give [them a vote...
...this threshold as well; the readings price tag for Women Gender and Sexuality 1003, Theories of Sexuality, for example, is more than $300. Professors need to do a better job of factoring in coursepack costs when they select readings for their courses. Otherwise, students are faced with the unattractive dilemma of skipping expensive but worthwhile classes, or illegally reproducing coursepacks in defiance of copyright law. Neither is acceptable...
...based at California's Miramar Air Station, where he repairs helicopters, sometimes wishes he could head to Iraq to look for his brother: "I'm not special operations. It's not like I could go out and find him myself, but I would if I could." Micah faced a dilemma once his brother was captured and his parents asked him to accept the Marines' offer to stay close to home. "If he wants to go to Iraq after this, that's fine," his mother says. "But I don't need two sons over there under these conditions." Says Micah...
...limbo will deliver him some compensation via possible lawsuits. The government says that since Habib was lawfully detained, he is not owed an apology or compensation. "Because of his former associations and activities," Ruddock says, Habib will remain "a person of interest" to the security services. And the dilemma of how to fight terrorism without abusing terror suspects' rights will remain a topic of interest to the public for a long time to come...