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...problem of My Lai, to be sure, is not the same as the dilemma that confronts men at every level in bureaucracies public and private. "The ultimate evil is the result of carefully segmented acts; the structure itself guarantees an evasion by everyone of responsibility for the full moral act," Reich argued. His solution is to create a new sense of accountability within bureaucracies that would "restore the awareness, the responsibility and the law that are the moral essence of free men." Reich surely has a point about the diffusion of responsibility in big, modern organizations. But in the case...
...Catalyst. It is an honestly stated dilemma, for art is not science and cannot mimic its processes. But one aim of "Art and Technology" was to show that a feedback can occur, and that its very unpredictability can be stimulating. In this, the show is a revelation. And when it closes, it will have left behind one of the key documents in recent American art: the catalogue compiled by Maurice Tuchman in which all the ambitions, negotiations, blocks and frustrations involved in this immense project are set down, without fear or favor. "Art and Technology's" real importance...
...problem posed by methadone's addictive properties remains to be solved. But two doctors at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine have experimented with a drug that may resolve the dilemma of distribution. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Drs. Jerome Jaffe and Edward Senay report that 1-methadyl acetate, a methadone-like substance, suppresses both withdrawal symptoms and narcotic hunger up to three times as long as ordinary methadone. Therefore it decreases the temptation and the opportunity to cheat on the treatment by selling the heroin substitute for drug money...
That presents Washington with a triangular dilemma, wrapped in official mythology, encased in old enmities, and enshrouded in the shaky precedents of international law. The U.S. cannot recognize Peking's claim to Taiwan without disavowing an old ally and denouncing a solemn treaty commitment to defend the island. To uphold Chiang's contention that he represents the 800 million Chinese on the mainland, as well as those on Taiwan, is simply no longer tenable. To recognize the claims of both governments is impossible. The major questions...
...Keyes' dilemma should be familiar, even to those who consider themselves radicals. At a certain point we are all going to have to face a moment of cusp when we will finally have to decide which side we are on, and the decision is going to be irretrievable. Keyes says, "you can ignore the truth until something blows, but when it blows you have to face up to it. Or else walk away whistling." If we aren't going to walk away whistling, we have to stand up to the decision...