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...hardly anyone thinks either party will take the entitlement challenge any more seriously then than it does now. By Friday, White House aides let it be known that the President had asked his top economics adviser, Gene Sperling, to report to him on ways to solve the Social Security dilemma--before Clinton leaves for vacation on Aug. 18. The President "has a chance to build a consequential legacy," says a White House adviser. "He has locked up something important and attainable. Now he has to turn his attention to bigger things...
Here, in a boardwalk caricature, comes the current American dilemma: How much prosperity is too much? This was an easy town to get rich in if you timed things right. But those blessings now carry burdens. The townsfolk have gone from acquiring wealth to managing it--knowing when to cut the right deal and let other ones go by. At Bunting's English Diner, where Mayor Jim Mathias and three of his predecessors gather early to sort through the day's problems, they like to recall how simple it used to be. Back in the '30s, when their fathers came...
What we face in the new tobacco agreement, incomplete though it may be, is an instance of the "Stalingrad dilemma," a term coined from that brutal battle in which the armies of Hitler met the armies of Stalin. Any decent person wants both sides to lose...
...keep a tender distance' while evaluating Robert's quandary. Gaines, most famous for his 1,937 performances as the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, handles the vocal demands of the role with ease. "Being Alive" and "Marry Me a Little" show off both Gaines' understanding of Robert's dilemma and his strong, vibrant voice...
Call it the Dolly dilemma. The surprise announcement in February that a sheep had been cloned from the mammary cell of an adult ewe immediately raised the question of whether the same technique could be used to clone people. While the possibility of cloning opens up a new and exciting line of scientific study, it also seems to violate ancient taboos. To help sort out the issues--and to get the jump on a conservative Congress--President Clinton took two swift steps: he called for a moratorium on the use of federal funds for human-cloning research, and he asked...