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Claremont's dilemma is one familiar to sports teams from the New York Giants to the Tennessee Titans, which this season have repeatedly had to stumble and slide through games on muddy, ripped-up turf. But Claremont found a solution, and it's likely to become a home-field advantage for many other teams...
...with more problem students getting routed to alternative schools, education policymakers face a dilemma: should they continue to segregate these kids after they have been rehabilitated, or return them to mainstream classrooms despite the risk that the bad habits and old pressures that originally contributed to their problems will resurface? Many youngsters are eager to escape the ostracism of this breed of alternative ed. "A lot of kids and parents see it as one step away from being in jail," says Sunshine Sepulveda-Klus, who coordinates alternative-education programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District. "We've worked hard...
Casting about for a way out of the dilemma, Schulte and Santee Sioux representatives traveled to Washington in February 2001 to seek the NIGC's guidance. Commission officials advised the tribe to install pseudo slot machines--like those used by the Seminoles--to get around the Class III controversy. The tribe complied--at a substantial economic cost. With the switch to the pseudo slots, Thomas says, revenue has fallen by two-thirds. The casino employs only 15 people, and the income barely covers operating costs. There is no longer any money for tribal programs...
...Austin L.Y.B. Spencer ’03 faces a vexing dilemma. “I will not wed the daughter of Lord Sothersby,” he announced. “Though my family doth wish it, she hath not my heart.” Word on the street is that he pines for Mary Kelly ’04, who is exceeding clever, but unfortunately Irish. “She is more fit to be a chambermaid than a bride,” sniffed Spencer’s father, Lord Nigel Spencer...
There is, fortunately, a way out of this dilemma. If national governments discarded the patent system in the medication market and instead assumed responsibility for researching and developing new medicines, the incentive problem could be avoided without creating state-protected monopolies. Instead, every company would be allowed to copy and manufacture the drugs developed by the government. The new competition between many firms would drive down prices and, in turn, make them affordable by those who so urgently need them...