Word: dilemmas
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Before an attentive audience of about 100, Elizabeth S. Anderson, professor of philosophy and women’s studies, tackled the famous prisoner’s dilemma, a theoretical situation that challenges the legitimacy of self-interest...
...traditional version of the prisoner’s dilemma, two accused prisoners are offered a chance to confess...
...Salween River, where he meets Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll?this story's Kurtz. After several months in Carroll's polymathic world of specimen collections and local power struggles, Drake is forced to flee. The Piano Tuner ends gracefully, if vaguely, with Drake's final escape from the dilemma of choosing between two realities: that of the imperialists and that of Carroll's native paradise. By then, Mason's prose has been liberated too. The jungleultimately wins, as it did over Conrad's Kurtz. Like the piano, which we last see drifting down the Salween River, Mason's story breaks free...
...required the couple to be pro-choice—to highlight the dilemma they would face about whether to continue the pregnancy—as well as to be articulate, young and Boston-area residents, to ease the collaborative process...
...what we read in history books. Here Smith's 1940s Tokyo is so gloriously and tenderly realized, ringing with modan jazu (modern jazz) and the tinkling of geisha headdresses, that the reader understands the hold it has on Harry and the reason his loyalties are so tragically divided. His dilemma is the real mystery in December 6. After all, every story, like every war, has two sides...