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...current crisis, the IMF faces a familiar dilemma: Should borrowers be required to undertake wholesale reforms in order to win loans? In the past the IMF has imposed tough conditions on borrowers, requiring them to prioritize economic and financial reforms ahead of political and social considerations. It's an issue that must be addressed anew, says Boutros-Ghali. "You want a minimum set of policies to make sure things don't get worse," he says. "[But] do we tell them to adjust right now, when it's most difficult? Or do we just give them the money...
...Probably not, since papers offer full news coverage anyway on their websites, as Libé did Thursday. That migration to the Web risks trapping French dailies in a dilemma their U.S. peers are already caught in: a proliferation of Internet-savvy readers unwilling to pay again for the original paper product. Indeed, Texier thinks whatever its current agony, the U.S. newspaper industry stands a better shot of coming out of this period alive than its French counterpart. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...Founded as a Muslim nation carved from British-ruled India in 1947, Pakistan has long struggled to unite a population divided by language, culture and ethnicity. It is quite true that Pakistan may never have resolved what Sabahat Ashraf, a Pakistani blogger now living in California, calls its "existential dilemma: Are we an Islamic state, or are we a state of Muslims?" but Islam has always been a common denominator. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the nation rallied under the banner of jihad. Today any attack on Islam, even the perception of one, is akin to an assault...
...know the story. With the flurry of acceptance letters comes inspirational, vomit-inducing stories in local papers. You know, the ones extolling the admitted students' virtues (brainy, friendly, well-liked, and modest!), detailing the horrible, horrible dilemma of being accepted to multiple schools with various scholarship options (Harvard?! or Princeton?? or Stanford??? or a FULL RIDE TO [insert state school]?!?! OMG MY LIFE IS SO DIFFICULT!! FML!!), and of course, FlyBy's favorite—recounting highly storied anecdotes from their time as a precocious child budding with Ivy League potential ("Alfonso was always the first to finish coloring...
...Read "To Travel or Not to Travel? A Swine Flu Dilemma...