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Retail buyers of old grappled with this problem as they do today.
The passages I quoted in the first round come from Chapter 7 of his book, "What Things Regulate," which begins with a reference to that most ivory-towered individual John Stuart Mill, the author of On Liberty , who articulated the famous "harm principle" with which libertarian thought of all stripes has grappled since he wrote.
On May 24 alone, counterterrorism officials grappled with reports alleging plots in Yemen and Italy, as well as a report about a cell in Canada that an anonymous caller had claimed might be planning an attack against the United States.
West has really grappled with the great plays and found in the lack of a central consciousness (the protagonists are not mouthpieces for the playwright) and refusal to demonize even the most destructive-seeming characters a hallmark of Christian forgiveness.
Freud grappled with this very dilemma in turn-of-the-century Vienna.