Word: dilemmas
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...Pakistan dilemma...
...dilemma of retaliation is sharpened when the victim of terrorism is a nation of laws but the perpetrator respects none. Arrests and trials are a mostly symbolic afterthought in the battle against terrorism, and yet U.S. law forbids tactics such as assassination that are routinely used by more battle-scarred nations...
Decades ago, the great New York City painter Stuart Davis christened one of his pictures Colonial Cubism--a splendidly witty reference to the dilemma American artists found themselves in when they looked across the Atlantic to Paris. How could you get out of the colonial bind--the sense of being condemned, in the name of avant-garde aspiration, to imitate the outer forms of avant-gardism, to keep doing the new at second hand? This was the problem for South American modernists too--and in spades. The whole relation of South American art to Europe and then, after...
...well-engineered but constricting operating model, a move away from the railway timetable concept." But whether the RSC finds a new direction, or has its identity chipped away by the dogfight for vacant theaters and the struggle to survive in the carnivorous world of the West End, is a dilemma it will soon have to resolve...
...Smelling blood, Democrats have begun a two-pronged attack: complaining loudly that Bush will raid Social Security to preserve his hefty tax cut, while at the same time giving him no room to wiggle out of his dilemma. "It?s their budget, their tax cut, and I think it ought to be their solution," says Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle...