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Parker's ploy is to distract year counters and prop watchers with a nifty plot and vintage dialogue. His solution to the marriage dilemma is resolved in a thoroughly modern manner that requires neither a long goodbye nor a farewell, my lovely...
...dilemma might have stumped even King Solomon: what to do with seven fertilized eggs of a divorcing Tennessee couple that are frozen at an in-vitro fertilization clinic in Knoxville. Mary Sue Davis, 29, is unable to conceive by natural means and wants custody of her "pre-born children" for future implantation. Junior Davis, 31, claims he is being "raped of my reproductive rights" by his estranged wife and insists on having a joint say on the future of the embryos. "I do not want a child of mine in a single-parent situation," he argued...
...crop of hopefuls cut from the same professional cloth is lining up to challenge Washington's Marion Barry, who has been weakened by continuing allegations of drug abuse. Barry's dilemma worsened last week when a grand jury heard testimony from a witness who said she saw the mayor in a Virgin Islands hotel room last year with convicted drug dealer Charles Lewis and a quantity of cocaine. If Barry is forced to resign or decides not to run for a fourth term next year, Jesse Jackson may enter the race...
That grisly episode (from Tony Hillerman's novel Talking God) is fictional, but it epitomizes the tensions in a dilemma that confronts curators, anthropologists and those Native Americans who angrily oppose them. To many scholars, and to much of the museum-going public, the Indian bones and burial artifacts are valuable clues to humanity's past. But to many Indians, these relics are sacred and the archaeologists who have appropriated them no better than grave robbers...
Gorbachev had once hoped to make the Baltic states a showcase for perestroika. But he now faces a painful dilemma. If he allows the nationalist movements to run unchecked, he risks worsening ethnic tensions on top of all the Soviet Union's other problems. But if he cracks down, he will hearten the enemies, who are already making rich political capital out of the discrimination against Russians. The Soviet leader met with Baltic party and government officials last week to seek some compromise of their demands. This week's oft-postponed plenum may show if he has found...