Word: dilemmas
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...ronique: On this spring evening, I could be working on one of my zillion papers or enjoying a leisurely dinner with friends. Instead, I am wildly searching my room for something spandex. My cheerleading dilemma is strangely appropriate: I have nothing to wear! My closet is strangely bare of any athletic clothing. I finally decide on old gym shorts from high school (a vivid purple) and a white tank top. I feel almost peppy, confident that I look the part. I can do this! I’ve got spunk! Who cares that...
It’s the sort of philosophical dilemma that any member of last year’s graduating class might have put to Richard Allen ’78, who sat at a table in New York City’s Union Square last year offering free advice to passersby...
...with a bandaged right hand he claimed was hurt when he tried to stop a thief. A third patient, writhing on a bed, had taken a bullet in the kidney after escaping a botched theft, hospital aides said. The doctors in the emergency room face a painful dilemma: many who come to be saved are routinely threatening others' lives. Among them are surely some of the thousands of common criminals set free by Saddam's 11th-hour amnesty. "They've misused their freedom," said Dr. Farkad Joseph, one of the hospital's doctors...
...euro zone's highest. With prices already 12% above the euro zone's average, a new government report warns that the country will surpass Finland in 2003 to become Europe's most expensive country. In the early '90s, Ireland was one of the E.U.'s cheapest. Ireland's dilemma points to the E.U.'s bigger one-rate-fits-all policy problem: The country needs an interest rate hike to help stymie rising prices, but with German inflation likely to fall to 0.8% in May, the European Central Bank will probably cut rates. And just wait until Eastern Europe joins...
...Pupendo is not enjoyed; Pupendo hurts," says Czech Culture Minister Pavel Dostál. "All the same it's a great film." Milos Forman, the émigré Czech film-maker and two-time Oscar winner, hails Hrebejk's ability to speak with "originality, imagination and humor about the dilemma of people trying to survive and have a decent life in a small country dominated repeatedly through centuries by powerful neighbors." Hrebejk's gallows humor makes Pupendo hilarious at times. In one scene, Mára's wife, who makes ceramic piggy banks for a living, switches from pig shapes...