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...have to saw off your foot to get out. That first film borrowed elements from Poe's "The Purloined Letter" (hide a clue in plain sight) and Alice in Wonderland (an audio tape bears the message "Play me"). I'm tempted to compare the two men's existential dilemma to that of a Samuel Beckett play. There are differences, though. Instead of being buried to the neck in sand, or stranded on the road to nowhere, Lawrence (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannel, who also wrote the script) are chained on opposite sides of a Stygian bathroom, with a lifeless...
...teaching your kids liberal values; for espousing them openly, perhaps one day they will be punished by a teacher, expelled from school, caught by police, fired from a job. Being caught between such choices - allowing your kid to be brainwashed, teaching him otherwise at possible risk - is a grotesque dilemma and perhaps at the heart of why so many hundreds of thousands of young Iranian parents emigrate each year once they are on the cusp of parenthood. They can take up the East-West divide in cities like Toronto and Los Angeles, but at least be spared the Iran-Iran...
Authors and journalists face a strange dilemma today: on the one hand, the disastrous policies of the Bush administration and the proximity of the upcoming 2006 midterm elections are rich material for any writer. On the other hand, this temptation has saturated the shelves of Barnes and Nobles with books on Iraq and the Bush administration. Another book on the subject risks getting lost in the shuffle...
...position. A split has already developed between members who want to withdraw their 19 Knesset seats from Olmert's government - Arab members are particularly appalled by their new coalition mates - and those who think it best to stay. Labor will decide its course on Sunday, but the Lieberman dilemma has simply highlighted the sense that the party no longer knows where it stands. Israel's campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza, and the increasingly chaotic infighting among Palestinian factions, have dashed hopes that former peacenik Peretz could push the government toward a negotiated peace. Indeed, the common feature in Israeli...
...Those few words sum up the dilemma hobbling China's policy towards its wayward, unpredictable neighbor. In the mid-1990s, a severe famine that killed tens or even hundreds of thousands of North Koreans sent refugees flooding across the porous border. And while increased trade and relatively good harvests in the last couple of years have stabilized the situation, a large portion of the country remains dependent on outside food aid. And international monitors fear that another major famine may be in the offing...