Word: dilemmas
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President Rudenstine and the Harvard administration should give the Wiesenthal Center's letter a serious response. Administrators must confront a classic university dilemma, writ large for the information age: academic institutions are committed to free speech and expression, but new information technologies spread damaging forms of speech as never before...
...notion of a man writing under a death sentence takes on a certain poignance. And the temptation exists, since he is the West's most prominent enforced recluse, to read everything he has written since the Ayatullah Khomeini's infamous fatwa in 1988 as a comment on his personal dilemma. But The Moor's Last Sigh--Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses--should not be taken only, or even principally, as veiled autobiography. It is much too teeming and turbulent, too crammed with history and dreams, to fit into any imaginable category, except that of the magically comic...
...Lacking that consistency and lacking a compelling rationale...I share the dilemma and I share the resolution that it's better to do nothing," Rudenstine continued...
...negotiations will produce anything of serious consequence. The problem is with the Syrian ruling elite who are concerned about their place in history. This is an obsession among this group, which is headed by Assad. They are afraid of being called traitors for talking with the Israelis. Assad's dilemma is that he does not want to appear to be blocking the peace, but he can't be seen to be bending to the Israelis. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, on the other hand, needs to establish that he is continuing the peace process. But he's having problems keeping...
...Rudolph. "Apple is not about to go bankrupt, the Macintosh is still very popular, but it is an indication that they might have to start cutting costs and selling more computers. Also, Apple has a history of management problems, which could have hurt profits. In the past, Apple's dilemma was an inadequate supply of computers, now it's competition from other computer makers...