Word: dilemmas
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...Keep Revolution Books Open!" flier on the door of the JFK St. store explains its dilemma: "We need $8000 to pay off fines from an overdue tax bill...
Perhaps Lamb best summed up Restic's dilemma...
Perhaps Lamb best summed up Restic's dilemma...
...which presents a dilemma to Western supporters of the new Russian revolution. Recognizing the Baltics was the easy decision -- even though the U.S. will not get around to doing so until this week. They had been independent countries until 1940, when they were incorporated into the Soviet Union by force, and most Western countries had never recognized that annexation to begin with. But when and under what conditions -- if ever -- should foreign nations recognize the independence of Ukraine, or Kazakhstan, or Moldavia? The question of aid is also sticky. The revolution has prompted some renewed interest, at least...
Richard Powers, 34, is the reclusive author of two earlier highly praised novels, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) and Prisoner's Dilemma (1988). His work on The Gold Bug Variations, which began in 1986, was aided by a 1989 MacArthur Foundation "genius fellowship." Seldom photographed or interviewed, he put himself on display during a brief prepublication visit to his native U.S. -- he was born and raised in the Midwest -- before returning to the Netherlands, where he has lived for the past five or so years. He says his brush with publicity was less painful than...