Word: dilemmas
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...absurd to have to choose between eating a real lunch and being on time to lecture when simply opening up. Annenberg eliminates this dilemma altogether. I suppose Harvard Dining Services could argue that this is the very reason I have Board Plus ($50 per semester to spend at any dining establishment on campus). But $50 really doesn't go far; in practical terms, after buying the irresistible Coffee Press Pot, one can hardly afford anything else--but then again, maybe that's a good thing...
...grim portrait of senescence delivers a double-edged message. On the one hand, it describes the classic image of old age that still predominates: a period of inevitable and distressing physical and mental decline. On the other, it starkly illustrates the folly of life lived too long--a dilemma that is at the heart of today's debate about the consequences of increased longevity...
Unlike the President and the Republican lawmakers who concocted the shameful version of reform that became law last week, Wilson sees both sides of the welfare dilemma. He has no quarrel with the need to do away with welfare as we knew it by moving recipients to jobs. Indeed, he considers it vital to arrest the long slide of the ghetto poor into dependence and pathology. But Wilson asks a simple question for which Clinton and the Republicans have so far provided only the vaguest of answers: Where are these jobs going to come from? He raised the question again...
Part of the G.O.P. dilemma is the paradox of answered prayers. The interests of blue-collar workers and Christian moralists, the two groups that have flocked to the party since the '60s, don't always square with the interests of its third and most enduring constituency, freewheeling capitalists. Free enterprise is a powerful and munificent system that also has a way of eliminating jobs and stifling pay raises while contriving new threats to the moral order, from cyberporn to Courtney Love. And so the moralists and low-wage earners who are now part of the coalition sometimes see a role...
...highlands, two small groups of Tutsi remain. Desire Gaspira, 40, a veterinary nurse born in the area, is among them. "Before, Tutsi and Hutu worked together," he said last month. "We drank together. We were brothers. Now we are enemies." In nearby Goma a Tutsi aid worker explained the dilemma facing her: "I was born in Zaire. My father was born in Zaire. But staying here means losing my life. I do not want to go to Rwanda, but nor do I want...