Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Preston says that the corporation's plan to turn the units into housing for graduate students could exacerbate the already contentious rent-control dilemma...
...copycat spectacle was gratifying to Forbes, who especially savored Dole's dilemma when the majority leader stood before the cameras as Kemp laid out a dozen principles for changing the tax code. "He clearly wanted out of there as quickly as possible," Forbes observed. "He wasn't comfortable. I think he's never been one for major ideas, especially on the tax side." Editor that he is, Forbes even writes his opponent's script for him. "He could have said, 'In 30 years, I've seen what a monstrosity this system is. I may even have contributed to the monstrosity...
...this," says Alexander campaign media adviser Mike Murphy, "is that [Forbes] got in to stop Dole, but the only effect he's having is to help him. In exchange for helping Dole, he's going to get to be the Secretary of Rich Clueless Guys." Gramm shares Alexander's dilemma, but he has more to lose. Gramm cannot rely on Dole to target Forbes much longer, since the Dole camp wants only to wound Forbes, not kill him off. That means Gramm will have to attack Forbes on the air if he hopes to slip past him in the polls...
President Rudenstine and the Harvard administration should give the Wiesenthal Center's letter a serious response. Administrators must confront a classic university dilemma, writ large for the information age: academic institutions are committed to free speech and expression, but new information technologies spread damaging forms of speech as never before...
...notion of a man writing under a death sentence takes on a certain poignance. And the temptation exists, since he is the West's most prominent enforced recluse, to read everything he has written since the Ayatullah Khomeini's infamous fatwa in 1988 as a comment on his personal dilemma. But The Moor's Last Sigh--Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses--should not be taken only, or even principally, as veiled autobiography. It is much too teeming and turbulent, too crammed with history and dreams, to fit into any imaginable category, except that of the magically comic...