Word: dilemma
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...South Africa, the dilemma has become even more vexing as the Botha government, swaying between reform and repression, finds itself accused by non- whites of being too intransigent and by Afrikaner hard-liners of being too soft. The provision of new housing and the imminent repeal of the sex laws were moves in the right direction. But both seemed small steps along a path that promises to be long and painful. --By Pico Iyer. Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Cape Town
...more like a chronic ailment that flares up or recedes by turn but is always maddeningly present. When representatives of both creditor and debtor nations came together in Washington last week for meetings of the policymaking committees of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the persistent debt dilemma was at the top of the agenda. Fears are rising once again about the financial condition of Brazil and Argentina, as well as that of a host of smaller debtors located mainly in Latin America and Africa. After three days of closed-door talks, the world's moneymen were...
Like their English-speaking compatriots, the Afrikaners share an unresolved dilemma: how to prepare their country for the future. The Afrikaners in particular are frozen in a time frame by their dour Calvinist faith and their history. Immigrants who first arrived from Europe almost 350 years ago, they are most conscious of the fact that, unlike the former colonialists of the Gold Coast or Mozambique, they have no place to go back to. Out of hand they reject all talk of one man, one vote, maintaining that it would be "one man, one vote, one time," and then black tyranny...
Many people on the inside knew, as they have known about the homosexuality of other stars, from Ramon Novarro, one of the great Latin lovers of the silentfilm era, to Montgomery Clift, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Sal Mineo and several of today's leading men. In one sense, the dilemma of gays is no different in show business than it is in any other business. Many are afraid, usually with justification, that acknowledgment of their private lives will damage and perhaps ruin their careers, whether they work at MGM or General Motors...
...Oddly, a solution to the Dems' dilemma may be on offer from liberal academia. "The hot new idea in liberal law journals is called popular constitutionalism," says Paul Gewirtz of Yale Law School. "It argues that legislatures and voters should have more control over government, and the judiciary should take a more subsidiary position." In other words, issues like abortion should be put to a vote. This is an idea unthinkable to most Democratic politicians, who believe the right to an abortion is tucked somewhere in the Constitution-and also to the more extreme religious conservatives, who believe abortion...