Confirmation, then, that this was the real Stephen Fry, facing one of the dilemmas of modern manners - how to politely decline an offer of online friendship.
Mr Cornwell's work is more wide-ranging and accessible, and evokes the moral dilemmas of the period very effectively.
In 2000, the case of twins Jodie and Mary, from the Maltese island of Gozo, highlighted the ethical dilemmas involved in the separation of conjoined bodies.
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The moral dilemmas of post-war Polish collaborators are better portrayed than those of the wartime occupiers.
These court clerks would be on the payroll of a law firm and their allegiances to those firms could create ethical dilemmas, or the appearance of ethical dilemmas.
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But this is not to say that either version of the fix-at-all-costs approach resolves the dilemmas inherent in the choice of exchange-rate regime.
However, the attempt to define a common and agreed framework for the implementation of principles for Bioethics is not easy, as dilemmas in the fields of medical and scientific research are directly related to the cultural, religious and philosophical background of each society.
Of the many dilemmas Germany faced after unification in 1990, reforming the abortion law proved one of the trickiest.
Citi analyst Mark Mahaney put out a report this morning tackling some of the dilemmas for Amazon in the eBook market.
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Among the issues being debated are the future handling of organ transplantation and the ethical dilemmas surrounding donation.
If the chancellor were to ape the often cynical behaviour of big companies when faced with similar accounting dilemmas, he would probably choose the lowest possible price - of 407p.
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Technology may change, but the morality of war will always pose the same dilemmas.
Social and moral dilemmas lie at the heart of their work, often emphasized with a heavy hand.
Friedman discusses the dilemmas posed by a number of promising technologies.
The candidates spent much of the forum reflecting on moral and spiritual dilemmas, but the evening was still marked by more earthly concerns.
When facing an ethical dilemma as an organization, try matching it up with one of the four ethical dilemmas.
The speech and the decision in parliament is the easy bit, but with implementation come the conflicts and dilemmas to be resolved by politics - the rows over the routes of new pylons and cables, the arguments over who pays.
She explains that she became interested in the issue during many years spent in the corporate and non-profit world, having herself faced dilemmas such as a whistleblower who accused one executive of fiddling the organization's books and threatened to tell the media if the board failed to intervene.
Again, it requires a deep understanding and sense of empathy with the challenges and dilemmas faced.
Low rates stimulate the economy and are good news for the American government, which can finance its deficit cheaply and without facing the dilemmas that beset the Italian and Spanish governments, which must impose austerity at a time of economic slowdown.
Because egg freezing requires the use of in vitro fertilization for future pregnancies, its widespread adoption would also likely increase the use of preimplantation sex selection and genetic diagnosis, practices which pose a range of ethical dilemmas.
The two parties may be helped by an opposition that faces dilemmas of its own.
Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront.
Or a group of students might be in charge of putting together a multimedia presentation about the moral dilemmas in literature as applied to World War II.
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To put it another way, there is no piece of paper that will instantly solve the agonising ethical dilemmas that can so easily arise when handing out aid to the suffering.
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The credit crunch presented central bankers with dual dilemmas, one for each of their two jobs.
But it presents huge ethical dilemmas because the stems are obtained from human embryos at the price of destroying them.
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