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...possible to understand the dilemma the administration faces towards China. Many analysts and entrepreneurs who support Most Favored Nation status and trade agreements with China, saying the United States should allow it to develop economically before it develops politically (despite egregious human rights abuses). Yet the Clinton administration's laxity towards the second greatest military power in the world is extremely naive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Losing Nuclear Secrets | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

What happened in Jasper stands slightly to one side of the usual argument about capital punishment. It mobilizes different issues of justice. Here, racial payback overrides the familiar philosophical dilemma presented by executions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something We Cannot Accept | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Your story "Banana Wars," on trade agreements and restrictions [BUSINESS, Feb. 8], painted a one-sided picture of the dilemma. The dependency of Caribbean islands like St. Vincent and the Grenadines on bananas for hard currency far outweighs Chiquita's need to maintain market share in Europe. Perhaps if Chiquita's chairman, Carl Lindner, had not spent so much time and money lobbying Congress and the White House, his company would not have "lost money four of the past five years." It's been said that business is war, and wars cost money. Chiquita is at war with the eastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1999 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...Considering some of the traumas she has endured, this is quite understandable. She is perhaps the most demure sensual beast ever to have graced the modern novel with her penchant for provocation. As the heroine of Sue Miller's newest novel, While I Was Gone, Jo faces a grave dilemma: how to reconcile her domesticated life as a 52-year-old mother, wife and veterinarian with her sensual fantasies and hippie past. She is fascinated by naked flesh, particularly that of her daughters, her husband and her bar-waitress friends. Unlike her loving husband Daniel, a minister who professes...

Author: By Adriana Martinez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boom and Bust: The Mid-life Fling | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

Patterson emphasizes the dilemma many parents face in the MCAS issue...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MCAS Tests At Center of Debate | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

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