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...will also allow you to yell for far longer and come up with much cleverer insults for the opposing team (or so you will think), spurring the Harvard troops to victory. And as it does with homework or talking to HUPD, alcohol just makes the games more fun. A dilemma is presented by the question of where this pregame should take place. Traditional pregame activities such as grilling absurd quantities of meat, throwing a football, or playing cornhole (a game similar in concept to horseshoes but played instead with bean bags and two large target boxes with holes...
...vaccine will pose a special dilemma for everyone measuring the risks this fall. We already know there will not be enough vaccine for everyone right away. So the priority will be to vaccinate high-risk people, such as those with chronic conditions like diabetes. But high-risk people tend not to think of themselves that way. "They feel fine. They go to work and take care of their kids. They don't define themselves day to day as someone with asthma," says Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. (Read about...
...dilemma facing France, and Europe more generally, is a difficult one - not least because about 1,800 other illegal immigrants are still hiding under bridges, in abandoned buildings or in the woods elsewhere on the French coast. Under European law, refugees are required to settle in the first E.U. country in which they land. For the thousands fleeing Afghanistan and Iraq, that usually means Greece, where the government grants asylum to only about 1% of refugees. "There are huge, huge differences between countries in the chance of being recognized as a refugee," says Wilbert van Hövell, regional representative...
...Since the U.S. started negotiating with North Korea over 15 years ago, hawks and doves within succeeding administrations have always wrangled over a central dilemma: Are the North Koreans bribeable? That is, are there sufficient economic as well as diplomatic incentives available to get the North to give up its nuclear program for good? A recent policy paper from the Asia Society and the University of California that has circulated in Washington discusses the ways in which "the economic dimension" can "induce and reinforce the peaceful transformation of the DPRK into a country that can provide adequate livelihood...
...Still, columnist Romano believes that Berlusconi's nod to public doubts about Italy's role in Afghanistan is outweighed by the reality that the Prime Minister must ultimately stick with Washington. Other European leaders face the same dilemma, especially now that U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived with a new approach to diplomacy that largely jibes with Europe's. "In the end, all you can really do is keep your soldiers there and accompany them until the day that Obama sees it is O.K. for a pullback," says Romano. "It's a very passive diplomacy, but it's not irrational...