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BlacKs today have a dilemma: Should they try to fight for majority-Black districts to elect significant numbers of Blacks to Congress in order to fight for their political goals, knowing that the majority-Black districts lead to an overall conservative shift...
...through the mail. Both newspapers received the mailed document Thursday. The newspapers would have to print three follow-up messages a year, and the Unabomberhas not promised to halt a campaign of blowing up buildings or other property.The offer has thrown the journalistic world onto the horns of a dilemma: "The bomber might be satisfied or he might not be," says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York. "The ante might go up. How about 24 hours on CNN? A half hour on the nightly news...
Standing outside her office the afternoon Iwent to see her was a bespectacled undergraduate,who spoke rapidly and animatedly aboutUlysses, which I'd never read. He was aphysics concentrator but declared he could notabide spending all his energy on numbers andformulas alone. His dilemma, he said, wasreconciling his talent for physics with his loveof literature. There was no doubt that theirconversation was in full swing, but I'd made anappointment and was determined not to leave.Finally, she saw me and interrupted the Joyceaficionado. "Wait for me," she said to him, "Thiswill only take a few minutes." With that she sweptme...
This woman's story perhaps most clearly illustrates the dilemma that Radcliffe seems to face today: the fact that for many alumnae, Radcliffe is a bitter remembrance of a time when they were not allowed equal treatment as students at Harvard. Yet that is not to say that when Harvard and Radcliffe merged in the '70s, equality swept into the river Houses and eradicated years of entrenched discrimination; women still found obstacles in the classroom, in their living environments and in their extracurricular activities. One editor at Newsweek recollected during a panel on women in the media...
...dilemma in hard science classes seems fairly easy to solve: don't hold class and don't assign new material during reading period. Allow students to digest the old lectures instead of having to continue attending 9 a.m. classes and frantically trying to assimilate new concepts in the days before the exam...