Word: dilemmas
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...could end some of the political division on campus. The ROTC dilemma is between Harvard policy and Defense Department policy, and that's where it should stay. This approach would allow the Harvard community to engage in a constructive dialogue about the effects of suspending particular research programs and how much time to allow for the military to get its act together and/or for other colleges to join us in our action. We could even agree to keep the ROTC program and set aside some of the financial aid money saved by the ROTC scholarships to give scholarships to homosexuals...
...became obsessed with the book. It showed him the way. He wanted it to be a nonpainful way. The book was clearly the answer to his dilemma of how to commit suicide without feeling any pain. He said he would never shoot himself or do anything like that...
...other characters exacerbate David's dilemma. Jonathan Fisher convincingly plays an alcoholic who wants to prevent David from repeating his mistakes. C. Michael Rodriguez is both wryly funny and poignant (without overdoing it) in his role as the fatalistic, wheelchair-ridden cynic. Both Fisher and Rodriguez torment David by making him believe that his successes can all be attributed to luck...
...safari he once faced down a charging lion, which sniffed and retreated in apparent acknowledgment of a fellow animal presence. But the memory may be a mere metaphor for the kind of masculinity he is trying to keep alive. The facts ultimately matter far less than the moral dilemma: whether to mire oneself in dull decency, like the nice nurse whose family can devote a whole conversation to the merits of new shoes, or succumb to seductive selfishness...
...education, may have been Louisiana's castor oil, but voters refused to swallow it. That leaves them with a choice between Duke, who is currently a state representative, and Edwards, a high-stakes gambler with Gucci tastes, a greased-lightning wit and a reputation for skirt chasing. Bewailing the dilemma facing Louisiana voters the day after the Oct. 19 primary -- in which Edwards got 34% of the vote, Duke 32% and Roemer 27% -- the New Orleans Times- Picayune editorialized, "Of all the excesses that have made our state notorious, yesterday's will go into the history books. File it under...