Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fancy restaurant, faced with a dilemma. The appetizer and salad are delicious, the main course, delectable (remember, I said a restaurant, not a Harvard dining hall). But the dessert left a pretty bad taste in your mouth. How would you rate your dinner overall...
...Tutsi and moderate Hutu. It was only the latest in a series of increasingly dire threats by these leaders aimed at eliminating outside interference in the camps and tightening their control of food distributions. The power play has presented those responsible for the relief effort with a dilemma: Should they cease their humanitarian work and put at risk the lives of innocent refugees, or accept the fact that they must hand over millions of dollars in supplies to the perpetrators of Rwanda's recent holocaust, who hope to use the camps as headquarters for rekindling a bloody civil...
...Museum videotape suggests, notwithstanding this spate of good publicity (and some modest but real political and financial gains), Native Americans are struggling with the wages of survival. Once the only people on the North American continent, they have persevered as an ethnic minority only to face the classic minority dilemma of whether to assimilate or to affirm a separate identity -- and, if they choose the latter, they further face a raft of federal definitions that can profoundly affect their economic welfare. The result is painful tensions between individuals and between tribes. Says an Indian activist: Just the question...
Many times at Harvard the losers take up a little extra space, creating a minor dilemma, but there is never much of a problem: at least the women's tennis team is guaranteed...
This week, however, lay-out has been faced with an unusually pleasing dilemma. Of the ten teams featured over the previous two days, seven garnered significant victories over the weekend. All seven merited top-of-the-page billing on an average day. From top to bottom, it was the best Harvard sports weekend I have seen...