One is the obscure Scylla and the other the obscure Charybdis. Both, in the current context, are unpleasant alternatives. India, therefore, faces two diametrically opposite challenges when dealing ...

In Homer’s Odyssey, the episode of the witch Circe is one of the most deliciously intriguing of the epic. She is often ...

That beachside barbecue is not the Gospel equivalent of a social-media post: the trivial and forgettable elevated to an art form. It is epic in ... makes for a stormy course between a monster Scylla ...

So the Fed is trying to steer a course through these two perils, with Powell cast as a latter day Odysseus, sailing gingerly between Scylla and Charybdis, the six-headed monster and the deadly ...

Teenagers spend an average of six to eight hours a day in screen-based leisure, and even Bill Gates is troubled by how it may be affecting their concentration, critical thinking, and confidence.

Is there any space between the Scylla of blind retreat into the known virtues of teaching and research and the Charybdis of the growing wish for an all-purpose university (clinic, hotel ...

Legislation is always hard to pass, but in this case it might be easier than some think. Colleges and universities are caught between Scylla and Charybdis. On the one hand, the SFFA decision prohibits ...

Indeed, to put it in the fashion of that biographer of Linnaeus whom she calls “dear old Stoever,” she can rarely keep her course clear of the Scylla of her own wisdom and the Charybdis of ...

"Next we began to sail up the narrow strait lamenting. For on the one hand lay Scylla, and on the other mighty Charybdis in terrible wise sucked down the salt sea water. As often as she belched it ...