Word: dilemmas
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...spends a night in the tiny town of Los Pozos as a guest of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), it's usually because he's been kidnapped. But while Pastrana chose to stay overnight of his own free will Thursday, he is indeed captive to a political dilemma few would wish on their worst enemies. The president began a second day of talks Friday with Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, the 72-year-old leader of the 17,000-strong Maoist guerrilla army that controls almost half of his country. And while Pastrana isn't quite begging, it's plain...
...Beyond the politics of selling it to skeptical allies, the Bush administration faces an immediate practical dilemma over missile defense - whether to proceed with the ill-starred system initiated under the Clinton administration, or to start from scratch on a more comprehensive system using weapons launched either at sea or in space. While the latter option is backed by those most fervently carrying the Star Wars torch, in a more limited version it also has the support of a number of Senate Democrats, Europeans and even the Russians - a sea-launched "boost phase" system designed to intercept missiles before they...
...times, students are often left facing conflicting requirements, especially those natural science concentrators and pre-med students who face morning courses and afternoon labs. This situation often compels students to choose Core classes, not on their merits, but on the basis of whether they fit in the schedule, a dilemma which regularly becomes a crisis for pre-meds concentrating in the humanities...
...been going through the motions of negotiating with Barak almost down to election day has been interpreted as the closest thing the Palestinian leader could do to campaign for his Israeli counterpart. As Sharon works to recast himself as a dove with claws, Arafat is faced with a strategic dilemma. While Bill Clinton was in the White House, Arafat's strategy was to compensate for the imbalance in power between himself and the Israelis by allowing (and even encouraging) political brushfires in the West Bank and Gaza, assuming that Washington would rush in to play fire brigade and earn...
...there a chance that Kostunica would try to resolve his dilemma by allowing Milosevic to leave...