Word: dilemmas
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...than positions available. In Currier, Eliot and Kirkland, the number of candidates equaled the number of slots available. Even the southwest district of the Yard (Massachusetts, Matthews and Straus Halls), whose eager first-years should not have been infected by Harvard's political malaise, presented voters with the same dilemma. An election without choice is no election...
Lowell Professor of Sociology Stanley Lieberson says he faced a similar dilemma. Lieberson accepted just 10 of the 99 students who applied to his seminar on racial and ethnic relations outside the United States...
...lucky ones. My successors were less fortunate. Little more than a decade after I received my diploma, a series of changes and reforms rendered the General Education program less and less effective, ultimately leading to today's dilemma...
What makes the province dilemma unique is Quebec has fallen victim a shrewd political entrepreneur who sees only the glory ahead for himself the founder and first president of a nation a modern George Washington, a Gandhi, a Mandela...
Percy's case highlights a key dilemma: how to distinguish kids who may be beyond change from the ones who aren't. In an article in this month's Commentary, James Q. Wilson observes that numerous studies of young criminals tend toward a shared conclusion: in any given age group, only 6% of the boys will be responsible for at least half of the serious crimes committed by all boys of that age. What do those kids have in common? Criminal parents, many of them -- more than half of all kids in long-term juvenile institutions in the U.S. have...