Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Academic initiatives have also been spearheaded. Starting tomorrow, the Harvard Trade Union Program will host a two-day conference with leaders from business, academia, non-governmental organizations and the student movement against sweatshops. The conference will examine ways of working together on the sweatshop dilemma...
...there such a thing as a wrenching dilemma for Bush? When asked to name the toughest decisions he's made, he hesitates, as if he can't think of any. "Well, the toughest decision was to run," he says at first. He pauses again and then recalls two death-penalty decisions, including his well-publicized refusal to grant a stay of execution to Karla Faye Tucker, that are featured in his book A Charge to Keep, which will be published next week. The next tough call that comes to mind: "The decision to fire Bobby Valentine" as manager...
...Well, once [Patricia Rozema] adapted the novel to have Henry be a viable match for Fanny Price, there was a dilemma after the Portsmouth scene [in that the relationship could still happen]. The sex scene seals the impossibility of their relationship--it's totally shocking...
...basically a bunch of potheads who spend their time hanging out and partying. (If you think this meal is bad, the Last Supper you'll see on the Mainstage is supposedly a mix between a backyard barbecue and a raging kegger.) Although they're sympathetic to Christ's dilemma, none of these quasi-"Deadheads" (did someone say cult?) really understands that Jesus has something serious to say--they just want to have a good time...
...Crowe's Wigand is undoubtedly the body and soul of the film; Crowe plays Wigand like a modern Hamlet, a quiet, broken shell of a man, and endows him with incredible dignity and grace. In this quietly riveting performance, Crowe captures every nuance of his character's dilemma and slow collapse; he heartbreakingly portrays Wigand's paranoia, depression and bewilderment...