Feb 15th, 2010 · The Obama administration wants to try captured terrorism suspects in civilian court. Although administration officials continue to criticize the use of military tribunals, they want to keep that option open for al-Qaida operatives such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. That would be a reversal from Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that Mohammed would be tried in a civilian court near Ground Zero.
Feb 1st, 2010 · The stories in Wild Child, the new book from T.C. Boyle, involve mostly unremarkable characters confronted with moral dilemmas. In the title story, a young boy abandoned at birth and who grew up on his own is discovered in the woods in France.
Jan 14th, 2010 · The warning goes straight to the Yemeni government's dilemma in cooperating with Washington against an al-Qaida offshoot in the country. In doing so, Yemen's weak regime must avoid upsetting the clerics and other radical Islamic figures whose support it needs to stay in power.
Jan 11th, 2010 · Filmmaker Eric Rohmer died today in Paris at the age of 89, according to his production company. Though he was often associated with the French New Wave, Rohmer was older than Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. His films seemed to be more influenced by such older French filmmakers as Renoir and Bresson. Yet by focusing each of his "moral tales" (including Claire's Knee, My Night at Maud's and Chloe in the Afternoon) on the interior moral dilemma of his central character, he made his movies more like literature. And that was revolutionary in its own way.
Jan 4th, 2010 · Detainees from Yemen have always posed a problem for the Obama administration's effort to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. The problem became more complicated over the holidays, when a Nigerian citizen is alleged to have received training from the local al-Qaida affiliate.
Dec 18th, 2009 · A perennial holiday dilemma: Will alcohol kill bacteria like salmonella in homemade eggnog? Microbiologists Vince Fischetti and Raymond Schuch, from The Rockefeller University, ran an experiment in the lab to see whether salmonella can survive in a vat of spiked eggnog.
Dec 11th, 2009 · Verdi's enigmatic yet profoundly beautiful opera takes just about every moral dilemma imaginable and gives them all recognizable, human faces, the sort of faces one sees every day — sometimes, even in the mirror. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars as the troubled title character in a production from London's Covent Garden.
Dec 1st, 2009 · Democratic lawmakers awaiting President Obama's Afghanistan speech Tuesday have quite a dilemma: They want to support the president, but many don't much want to support a troop increase or continued funding for what they consider a no-win quagmire. Will the president's pursuit of the Taliban chase away fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill?