Word: dilemmas
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...select early in their academic careers. Even if I do not accept advanced standing, I will have to name a subject area to which I will devote the next three years of my life. It feels a bit premature. However, I am heartened by the thought that my dilemma is one that many classes of Harvard have faced and overcome...
...social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...
...could hardly touch my morel-sauced salmon, so fixated was I on the dilemma he had placed us in. As the cut-rate Kinsley, I would have to start charging Netly News hounds--what? Nine dollars and ninety-five cents? No way. I happen to know Netly News readers believe in the free lunch. Some have even asked me for small loans...
Despite this record, Gates is not wearing a seat belt. (A dilemma: Is it too uncool to use mine?) He rarely looks at you when he talks, which is disconcerting, but he does so when he's driving, which is doubly disconcerting. (I buckle up. As his mother and others have learned, it's not always prudent to compete.) He turns into a dark drive with a chain-link fence that slides open as the Lexus approaches. It's nearing midnight, and the security guard looks a bit startled...
...dilemma no head of state could envy, and it took Fujimori's security forces completely by surprise. In recent months they had become convinced that they had won the war on terrorism that Peru had been fighting for more than 15 years. Forty minutes after the initial attack, the police withdrew from the compound and began shouting at the guerrillas. The guerrillas yelled back the suggestion that the security squads go find themselves a megaphone. When police lobbed tear gas into the compound, the rebels simply pulled on their gas masks while the hostages sputtered and choked...