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...dilemma. As I loitered in the Dunster House Common Room for the final innings of game four, surrounded by a squawking throng of simian Red Sox fans, I couldn’t decide whether I should root for a Colorado comeback, out of my usual Schadenfreude for Boston sports, or rather bite my lip and hope for a quick Sox victory so as to get the whole damn thing over with. I was leaning towards the latter; the exquisite masochism of Boston sports fans, born out of centuries of Irish-Catholic resentment and sexual privation was getting tedious; and besides...
...Sinaa industrial district in southeast Fallujah was once al-Qaeda's hive and bomb-making base in the city. And for Marine Capt. Sean Miller, a suicide bomber's vest found there a few days ago symbolizes the dilemma at the heart of U.S. thinking about leaving Iraq...
...picture? From early on, the director has been criticized for inconsistently reconciling his love of detail-oriented cinema with his job of macro-managing the creative reins. In short, the Texas native can sometimes get lost in own head. But he said he has no problem with that dilemma.“I like to embrace the idea of filling the movie with ideas,” he said, after having removed his right moccasin. “In the end, if that means that my movies, they share some similarities, well, that’s OK with me?...
...trip to take a job with South Africa's Natal Sharks; while the rapid rise of Argentina as a real contender has been due in large part the experience gained by 90% of its squad while playing pro rugby in either Ireland, England, or France. Their location poses a dilemma over in which annual tournament to include the Pumas - in the Tri-Nations tourney with fellow southern hemisphere teams South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, or Europe's annual Six Nations tournament, which is, after all, closer to where the Argentine players now make their homes...
...sentence left U.S. officials with a dilemma. Should they refuse to hand over a lawfully convicted prisoner and invite a confrontation with the Iraqi government, or should they deliver to the gallows a man who had risked his life to assist the U.S.? "We have certain principles," says the dia official. "When people help us, we really, really do try to go out of our way to keep promises." That sentiment may have won Hashem a reprieve, but it could prove temporary. A spokesman for Petraeus says the pledges made in 2003 don't apply to the current situation. "There...