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...most frightening situations that a parent can face is not knowing whether their child has a firearm in their own house. The Boston Police Department’s new Safe Homes Initiative is a way to help Boston area parents deal with just that dilemma. The program consists of a community advisory council that identifies households where juveniles are believed to be carrying firearms, followed by a search team comprised of police and community members who go and request to search the children’s rooms. Searches are completely voluntary, and if an illegally possessed gun is found...
Perhaps he just disagrees with Hillary's health-care platform. But as Martha Stewart and Katie Couric have discovered, high-powered women are prone to the Goldilocks dilemma: This one's too hard! That one's too soft! "Women aren't allowed to express their ambitions sometimes," says Oliver Goldstick, writer-producer of Lipstick. "There's a long tradition of Hollywood pictures where powerful women are punished for their success...
Kunzru's My Revolutions stages the same dilemma more deftly in the story of ex-radical Chris Carver, who's living in deep cover in placid suburban England 30 years after his crew went on a bombing spree. Kunzru's theme is summed up in the circularity of the title: when Chris' cover gets blown, he has to confront the way idealism becomes what it opposes ("War can only be abolished through war") and the way lies--like Carver's capitalist-pig identity--can turn into the truth...
...inclement weather outside and an orchard's worth of ripe fruit and other requisite ingredients in the pantry, I decided to tempt fate. But, as is typical with my ventures in the kitchen, things quickly got out of hand. I was about to Google the solution to my cooking dilemma, until a response to a status update on my Facebook profile - which read "Bill is cooking tarte tatin" - pre-empted that move and caused a dramatic paradigm shift in my view of the Internet's utility...
...Hence the Déby dilemma: Prop up an odious but friendly regime, or allow Sudan, via its proxies, to sabotage efforts to stop the killing in Darfur...