Word: dilemmas
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...remarks last week sent another shudder through a nation already coping--or more precisely, failing to cope--with the renewed divisions triggered by the Simpson verdict. And they added to the dilemma of black leaders who for weeks have been wrestling with the decision of whether to march. Representatives Gary Franks of Connecticut and Charles Rangel of New York, along with the leadership of the N.A.A.C.P., announced that they could not join Farrakhan no matter how laudable the event's goals, while some women's organizations raised objections to Farrakhan's exclusion of females. Said former Black Panther Angela Davis...
...situation is not unique. Every year a large number of students are placed in just such a dilemma. The problem itself is understandable. In order to accommodate a population larger than the number of available bedrooms, Harvard must jump up and down on the suitcase, so to speak. When this manifests itself as bedrooms used by more people than they were designed for, the situation may be cramped and crowded, but at least it's acceptable...
...lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world and my dilemma (the rage that gave me this blocked heart) to outer catastrophes. I sailed off to Bosnia and Hiroshima--big objective correlatives." Spasms of bloodthirsty fury, he observes, can block up the collective heart of entire ethnic groups, who cannot let go of old grievances...
...represented minorities to its graduate program. While the department should change its policies to ensure that the financial need of all students is met, it should also continue to provide generous aid packages for minorities. The lack of a substantial number of highly educated minorities is an acute American dilemma. The government department should take whatever steps are necessary to meet this need...
Worse still, the young artist could expect no informed criticism. In Boston, Copley complained, people judged portraits only on their likeness to the sitter--as effigies, not paintings. He set out to resolve this dilemma, at least, by painting a demonstration piece and sending it to experts in England...