Word: dilemmas
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...This dilemma was evident in last November's revelation that Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 had attempted to swap a $500,000 gift in exchange for University Officer status. The K-School, with only a small pool of alumni but ever-expanding programs, badly needed the money to bolster the school's loan forgiveness program. Administrators let the demands of fundraising overshadow Harvard's ethical guidlines...
Particularly for city folks, who pride themselves on their survival instincts and their street smarts, the dilemma is often more practical than moral: they are afraid of being conned. While willing to help those who are truly in need, they are suspicious that many panhandlers are actually hustlers. "I've come to the point where they're all pros until proved otherwise," says the Rev. Chuck Faso of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Chicago. "We have been taken so many times. They come in here with tears in their eyes and ask for exactly $82.33 for bus fare...
...film's conspiracy theory is neat, for sure. It manages to embody every institution liberals fear -- including the FBI, which keeps sending Cathy back to the bed of the man who would kill her. It makes for a familiar movie dilemma, harking as far back as Notorious (1946) and as recently as Married to the Mob (last week). And when these two loving enemies strike sparks, the picture comes briefly to coherent life. To a tough role, Winger brings all the gifts -- chameleon face, whiskey-and-chocolates voice, hoydenish energy, keen moral intelligence, fierce authenticity -- that make her a pleasure...
...made a liar of himself. There is a priest in the book. Wheat, in fact, is devoted entirely to Father Joe Hackett, who in the late 1960s arrives as the rector of the comfortable suburban parish of SS. Francis and Clare. And once again, the central dilemma is that however much a priest may try to look to the next world, he remains hopelessly, haplessly entangled in this...
...heart of the welfare dilemma, according to Ellwood, is that the system attempts to place a dollar value on complex social and economic factors. As he emphasizes again and again, you can't throw money at a problem and expect it to go away...