Word: dilemmas
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...Syrian army has occupied Lebanon for almost as long as the Israelis have, and Damascus retains de facto military and political control over its fragile neighbor. Israel's Lebanon dilemma had for most of the past decade been a key bargaining chip in Syria's efforts to negotiate a peace agreement involving Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Israel's unilateral retreat from Lebanon has now deprived Damascus of that leverage, calling Syria's bluff. Moreover, it's beginning to raise the question among Lebanese of what purpose is served by Syria's presence, which has been presented...
Africa is a place where the West prefers to salve its conscience on the cheap. On the one hand, we feel a genuine moral pang when slaughter rages there. On the other, we are not willing to die ourselves to stop it. And sometimes a third factor makes the dilemma still more intractable: a warlord with absolutely no interest in peace. The result is Sierra Leone...
...that they've arrested rebel leader Foday Sankoh, the Sierra Leone government and the U.N. have to figure out what to do with him. And as long as Sankoh's men continue to hold some 350 U.N. peacekeeping troops hostage, that's an acute dilemma. The Sierra Leoneans, who sentenced Sankoh to death in 1998 before being obliged by an abortive peace deal to make him vice president, may be inclined to punish him for his innumerable crimes - a sentiment reflected in reports that he was paraded naked through the streets of Freetown by Sierra Leonean troops before being handed...
...Knight dramatizes an ethical dilemma in the longer term. We are approaching the day when we will be able to engineer personality traits into, or out of, the human makeup. When we come to bioengineering the next generation of coaches, do we intend to leave out the anger? Would the human race be better off without rage? Would competitive sports survive without it? Forget coaching basketball. How about professional football...
...metaphor is very easily adaptable. In Denmark, Hamlet's being shoved into war, they want him to lead a country into a battle, and he's not interested. I think all that is very, very relevant. Who is Opheila now, what would she wear? It makes you experience her dilemma, and his dilemma with all the character situations. It makes you understand them in a visceral way, instead of respectfully studying it. It makes Hamlet a living part...