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...First, there is no way for clubs to verify the number of posters lost to vandalism. Second, even if a council committee could somehow discern legitimate claims from dubious ones, simply reimbursing recognized clubs will not alter the community’s feeling concerning the freedom of expression. The dilemma that makes this problem so urgent is not the fiscal loss to recognized student clubs, but the loss of their University-guaranteed free speech...
...much but not everything?” Taylor asked, referring to the dilemma faced by many employers in African countries. “How can you not be penalized because you have started to do something...
...inspector's demand creates a dilemma for Saddam: Why surrender a whole category of tactical weaponry when you're expecting to be invaded even if you do? But Iraq is believed to have manufactured about 100 of the missiles, which don't have an onboard guidance system, and that would hardly make a decisive difference against the legions of General Tommy Franks. And refusing to destroy them will almost certainly bring an invasion within weeks. Saddam's conduct until now suggests that he is well aware that his best weapons against the U.S. military are political and diplomatic. Every time...
Hence the French dilemma. "If they veto," says a U.N. diplomat, "that's a permanent slap at the U.S.'s face--very dangerous--and they threaten to make the Security Council irrelevant. If France abstains, it's not a player. If it votes yes, Chirac looks like a weather vane." Small wonder that, according to several sources, French Foreign Minister de Villepin was openly agitated--"shrill," said one observer--at the meetings in New York last week. ("All you talk about is war. That's all you want to talk about," de Villepin said to Powell at a lunch after...
...biggest medical dilemma facing most humans may soon be our masses of fat. One would hope that as we begin to dissect hunger at the molecular level, we can control our weight with safe pills rather than will. People can't resist food--we didn't evolve for food being cheap; we evolved for food being scarce. So we may need science to save us from our human nature. Food without fat--it's like sex without having babies, and you know how great a revolution that triggered...