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...many of the young men there is also a conflict between the desire to provide for their children and doubts about their own abilities as providers. Says Tommy Milladge, a counselor at the Youth and Family Center in Lawndale, Calif.: "The paradox felt by teen fathers is that while they want the young lady to receive services, they are ambivalent because they can't provide for them the way they should. It defeats their masculinity." Until recently it was thought that this same sense of masculine pride would prevent young fathers from participating in programs designed to help them...
Among his other talents, Niebuhr had a gift for aphoristic paradox. He addressed the dilemma of the new nuclear age by decreeing atomic weapons to be "our ultimate insecurity and our immediate security." One of his best-known lines appeared in The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944): "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary...
...just our need for communal space (something the College otherwise sorely lacks). Whatever it is, I’ve come to appreciate the place of the Yard in Harvard’s mythos. Combining secluded tranquility with a sense of openness and accessibility, the Yard aptly signifies the central paradox of the public-minded university. If ivy-covered walls forbid the curious from peeking in on the cloistered life of the academy, open gates and sumptuous lawns beckon with a spirit of public generosity...
...stepped down temporarily as the acting Chief Executive so he could run on July 10 for the top job in an election he can't lose: the voting bloc is an 800-member electoral college made up largely of local pro-mainland movers and shakers. "It's a paradox," says Professor Anthony Cheung, chairman of pro-democracy think tank SynergyNet. "Beijing is stepping in, has more control, is interfering. At the same time it has become more sensitive to local sentiments...
...stepped down temporarily as the acting Chief Executive so he could run on July 10 for the top job in an election he can't lose: the voting bloc is an 800-member electoral college made up largely of local pro-mainland movers and shakers. "It's a paradox," says Professor Anthony Cheung, chairman of pro-democracy think tank SynergyNet. "Beijing is stepping in, has more control, is interfering. At the same time it has become more sensitive to local sentiments...