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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite their different characters, committees face the same dilemma--randomized students didn't choose their House, may not like the House, and both factors may deter them from participating in House events (traditional or not). Committees have to choose whether to encourage new residents to get to know and love the character of the House, or to let the House and its character adjust to the present needs of new residents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Committee Leaders Gear-up Post-Randomization | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

...here is where the focus should be on the regulatory aspect of scientific progress. How intelligent chimerical creatures should be treated is a very real moral dilemma, but it is not necessarily the sole outcome of a scientific study of genetically human/animal beings...

Author: By Mattias S. Geise, | Title: Creating Chimeras | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...until you're good and ready. One of the worst things that can happen to an umpire is to find that you've waved a runner "safe" with your hands but with your mouth you've called her "out." Which to believe? Occasions like this raise an interesting philosophical dilemma, testing the umpire's loyalty to action and language, and forcing him to choose between the two. Although actions may speak louder than words, the action is always more easily transformed than the word. Remember, you can always take your waving hand and make a fist...

Author: By Jim Cocola, | Title: Why I Ump | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...reasons for making this choice, or using their deaths to make complaints about our own college or graduate experiences, are actions that many of us cannot help taking as we try to make sense of these tragedies. One of our greatest burdens when confronted with apparent suicides is the dilemma of how to react...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Facing Tragedy | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

What do you do when a bogeyman simply refuses to act scary? That?s Defense Secretary Cohen?s dilemma, after a Defense Department assessment found -- to the chagrin of anti-Castro legislators -- that Cuba presents no military threat to the U.S. Cohen held back the report, due for release yesterday, so that it could be made ?more presentable,? as an aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cohen Holds Back Cuba Report | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

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