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...When she introduced you last week, Quincy House Co-Master Jayne Loader said that when she is faced with an ethical dilemma she asks herself “What Would Carol Do?” Let’s say you have to choose between eating an entire rack of lamb and repealing the Nineteenth Amendment. What would Carol...
...have had somewhat less success in convincing perfect strangers to take the leap and say hello. Upon explaining this dilemma to my mom, she asked why I just didn’t take the initiative and say hi first. My first reaction to this most reasonable observation was to curse my mother and her damned logic in a tearful outburst, much as I did after she suggested my problems securing a date to the junior prom might be remedied by showering on a more regular basis. After collecting myself, though, I decided to do what I do with most...
...without the rest of the directors, enabling him to function more like an American CEO. Thanks to the change, "we can take strategic decisions faster and with better preparation," he told shareholders in June. Unintentionally, the change also makes him harder to remove. "Deutsche Bank's particular dilemma is that the CEO stands alone," says Ulrich Hocker of the German Shareholder Protection Association, which advocates tougher corporate governance. Whatever the outcome, the case is a blow to Ackermann and can only make his plan for change harder to implement. A sympathetic Frankfurt banker said: "Imagine how distracting it must...
...large number of failing schools creates the dilemma Kenia Olivero faced in New York City. In Chicago this year more than 19,000 students asked to transfer, but the school system had only about 1,000 spots for them. "It's not like we have a lot of high-performing schools at 50% capacity," said Arne Duncan, chief executive of Chicago's public schools. "It creates a sense of options being available when they...
...Here's the delicious dilemma Pirandello poses: Three strange characters: a man (we'll say A), his wife (B) and an older woman (C), whom the man has forbidden his wife to contact. A says it's because C is mad: that she believes the man's wife is her daughter, when in fact her daughter was the man's first wife, who died in an earthquake, and B is his second. C says A is mad: that he mistakenly believed his wife had died in an earthquake, and to humor him B pretended to be another woman, whom...