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LOOKING back, my experience was like a play within a play. As I wrote a story about an ethical dilemma of the press, my own publication was violating what I consider absolute standards of behavior...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: A Play Within a Play | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

There are other complications about bloodlines, old-boy and old-girl networks, the FBI and a touring orchestra backed by the CIA. All end in moral muddles that dramatically underscore the dilemma of ends and means. Higgins is no prude; he understands that evil can be a matter of degree, and he can live with the camel's nose in the tent. But in Outlaws he worries about the beast that decides to enter broadside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ends And Means OUTLAWS | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...vexing dilemma of the Yat-Pang case is not in dispute. Young Asian Americans tend to target the best schools, which have limited places even for students submitting top marks. While choosing this fall's freshman class, for example, Berkeley turned away 2,200 students from all backgrounds who had perfect grades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The New Whiz Kids | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

That is precisely the dilemma that the Democratic creators of the Southern Regional Primary hoped to avoid. But it is possible that no electoral mechanism can offset the dominance that a disproportionately liberal electorate has in the early tests in Iowa and New Hampshire. Nunn, for example, would have to defend not only his foreign policy views but also a conservative domestic voting record that includes support for Reaganomics, the nomination of William Rehnquist as Chief Justice and a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court abortion decision. Nunn flunks almost every liberal Democratic litmus test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Songs of the South | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Bureaucratic bumbling and feuding hinder the effectiveness of exotically named units with high- tech equipment, raising again an old dilemma: How can the U. S. prepare for unconventional war while maintaining democratic control of the military? -- Did pilot oversight cause the Detroit air crash? A mystery deepens. -- In Colorado, convicts learn to be cowboys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page August 31, 1987 | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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