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Pritchett's dilemma is this: He suspects that a wiley student--perhaps a disgruntled Review staffer--sabatoged the paper's computer system in order to embarrass its editors. But given the Review's history of outlandish behavior, who'd believe...
...latest political impasse with Congress presents Bush with a tough election-year dilemma. The President does not want to alienate black voters, about half of whom currently support him in opinion polls. But neither does he want to jeopardize the crucial votes of blue-collar Reagan Democrats who oppose any hint of racial job quotas. Tepid conservative supporters and worried business groups, moreover, say they are against any law that could draw more civil rights claims into court. "This is a turning point, a defining moment in the Bush presidency," says Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference...
...sure, Saddam's methods are far more ruthless than Sharon's, but Israel's human and political dilemma is more acute than Iraq's. Because Israel is, in origin and essence, a Jewish state, most Arab residents are never going to feel that it is truly their country. That problem is vexing enough within Israel's pre-1967 borders, where the population is 82% Jewish. But on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 1.7 million Palestinians constitute an overwhelming majority that will feel forever oppressed, forever cheated, never reconciled, never redeemed...
These are trying days on American campuses. Faced with the double dilemma of a shrinking student population and rising costs, colleges and universities across the country are simultaneously rattling tin cups and wielding budget axes. One result: sharp cutbacks in programs and services. "The 1990s," says Cornell University President Frank H.T. Rhodes, "are going to be very tough...
Although this is the first time since the early 1970s that Harvard has faced such a substantial financial crunch, the University is not alone in its dilemma. Other major research institutions, like Columbia and Stanford, have also announced their own plans for cutbacks...