Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best and most balanced. Ice-T's vivid writing and rich delivery detail life on the streets with his trademark realism and humor, but the sometimes tragic consequences of that life are also laid out. On New Jack Hustler, which was nominated for a 1992 Grammy, he sketches the dilemma of a dope dealer...
Like Hamlet as he strolled the ramparts of Elsinore castle, Danish voters last week confronted a dramatic dilemma: to be, or not to be fully a part of the new Europe. Their answer, which provoked an instant volley of slings and arrows from the nation's outraged Community partners, was an astounding no. By a 50.7% majority, meaning roughly 48,000 votes out of nearly 4 million cast, Danes voted in a referendum not to ratify the treaty of Maastricht, a landmark agreement that pledges the Community to monetary as well as political union by the end of the century...
...with only 31 percent of those Blacks who even make it to college graduating, with over 56 percent of Black families headed by single women and (according to the Urban Institute) with more than one quarter of Blacks still facing some from of discrimination in the workplace, the American dilemma seems alive and well...
...many whites, a new American dilemma has emerged--a conflict between America's meritocratic ideals and its race-based preferential treatment in hiring, election districting and school choice. President Reagan tapped into this dilemma, galvanizing a slice of white working voters around "a new conservative egalitarianism," as Thomas B. Edsall of the Washington Post and Mary D. Edsall '65 wrote recently...
Refusing to change can only lead to more South Centrals, more poverty and less participation in the structures of politics by those who need them the most. It can only lead to more David Dukes and more Leonard Jeffrieses. It can only lead to a new, even deeper American dilemma, one that we cannot afford to face...