In the week since a young woman was slain at Columbia University and her boyfriend committed suicide shortly afterward, the university and its students have grappled with an issue of increasing concern on campuses around the country: violent relationships among students.
They were Palestinians and Israelis, Egyptians and Jordanians, Romanians, Germans and more, grappling together with an issue that has touched each and every one of their countries and communities as viscerally as it has touched our own.
The trade dispute has become an irritant in relations between the countries as they grapple with a number of pressing issues, including the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran and efforts to revive the global economy.
Today, the PHC nursing profession in Australia continues to grapple with a number of professional issues including the lack of: a comprehensive educational framework for nurses working in general practice [ 15, 17], a defined career framework [ 5] and an agreement on models of practice and the role of PHC nurses as part of a multi-disciplinary team [ 10].
Five supreme court justices are on Tuesday being asked to grapple with a legal issue relating to the fact that Jogee did not wield the knife, but urged Hirsi to do so.
From the outset, officials of the drug company and administrators of the college realized that they had to grapple with a tough issue that does not usually enter into real estate negotiations: the question of whether the needs and goals of a research laboratory could be compatible in all cases with the values of a Catholic institution.
This is the "move on" we hear from people in work teams, or committee meetings, or families, or anywhere we have to grapple with a difficult issue.
Each group was asked to grapple with a particular issue, including: 1) defining and promoting the value of evolutionary thinking; 2) the research base for evolution education (what evidence is needed?); and 3) connecting the Thinking Evolutionarily initiative to other efforts to improve life sciences education.
My own suggestion to Muslims grappling with such an issue is to recognize that when it comes to what we believe, science and religion address two kinds of truth: empirical and revealed.
"We are grappling with a number of issues, we really are, but I think we are making progress," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
"Getting to this vote has taken longer than we would have liked," he said in a statement, "but five agencies have had to work together to grapple with a large number of difficult issues and respond to extensive public comments".
