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Freshman year at Harvard arrived, and Hall faced the dilemma of having a strong water polo background on a weak college team, then a lowly club sport. Hall met the challenge head on. Rather than settling for being a big fish in a small pond, he committed himself to working with rookie coach Steve Pike to improve the program as a whole...
Perhaps the saddest dilemma facing South Florida is the plight of the refugees from Haiti. Law enforcement officials pick up about 500 Haitians a month on Florida's beaches, but probably just as many slip in without getting caught. The 600-mile journey from Haiti is often arduous, a measure of how desperately Haitians want to leave their country. Many sell all their possessions and hire professional smugglers, who often starve them, beat them, or even dump them overboard. Others pool their money to buy a makeshift boat and then hire a local fisherman, who may know little about navigation...
...Editors: "Arming the World" [Oct. 26] brought into sharper focus the terrible dilemma we face. Which is better-to curtail arms sales to Third World powers and increase their vulnerability or to arm everyone to the hilt and wait for mutual annihilation? I do not see much to cheer about in either camp...
...dilemma was painful, no less so because Ronald Reagan had inflicted it on himself. After pushing the biggest tax cut in U.S. history ($749 billion over five years) through a reluctant Congress and proposing $1.7 trillion in military spending in the next six years, could he also keep his promise to balance the federal budget by 1984? No way, his critics had insisted. As the recession further depressed revenues, automatically pushing up social spending, and projected deficits ballooned, even Budget Director David Stockman belatedly advocated a flipflop, urging massive tax increases. Last week Reagan moved toward a difficult decision...
...Christian Democrats' answer to the dilemma was contained in the slogan that stretched across the vast wall of Hamburg's Congress Center last week as the party met for its annual convention...