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...next in line is the president pro tempore of the Senate, who at the time was the 98-year-old J. Strom Thurmond. He, presumably, would have faced the same dilemma as Hastert...
...enjoys my dependence, his strong grip, the unplanned spin and sudden dip, rare twists for this normally type-A personality. But I also wonder if my complete inability to lead coupled with a demand for competent male dance partners points out a hypocrisy at the heart of my dancing dilemma. Are we girls contradicting ourselves by asking for both modern equality in life and old-school masculinity on the dance floor? Have most boys forgotten how to lead because society keeps telling men not to assume an upper hand? Then perhaps “bumping and grinding?...
...Tennis.” Gary and Danny are acting buddies who meet on the set of a low-budget Indie film set in California—art imitating life, one assumes. What makes “Tennis, Anyone?” so vapid is its formulaic false dilemma. After shooting the film, the friends promise to call each other; the viewer is immediately shown a giant “One year later” inter-title. At a party, they discover their mutual love of tennis, and end up playing in a series of charity tournaments. But between tournaments, Danny...
...case you’ve tuned out three years of protests and press conferences on campus, here’s the issue in a nutshell: the Solomon Amendment, first passed by Congress in 1994, blocks federal funding for universities that limit military recruitment. It poses a dilemma for Harvard Law School, which requires all on-campus recruiters to sign a pledge saying they won’t discriminate against gays and lesbians. The military, which bars gays and lesbians from serving openly under its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...Indeed it is - and not just for Washington. Opposition politicians in Germany and the United Kingdom, the two most frequent destinations according to an analysis of flight logs by the Guardian, have already put their fingers on the damned-either-way dilemma of governments who either acquiesced to the secret flights or didn't know about them. "I cannot imagine how something like this should happen without (the government) knowing," thundered Gregor Gysi, head of Germany's Left Party, this week in the Bundestag. "International law has to be used to limit the power of the strongest." The idea that...