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...wealthiest Harvard students, whose parents make substantial incomes, the tuition increase will pose no problems. Likewise, for the least wealthy Harvard students, increased financial aid will absorb the costs of the hike (even if it may leave them with a larger work-study requirement or greater post-college debt). But for the rest of Harvard’s students, whose parents make too much to see the costs absorbed by aid and too little for the costs to be an inconsequential expenditure, the tuition hike will be a real burden. Feeling the pinch of the recession, members of the middle...
...takes the girl to a motel to sober up and that starts a fractious relationship. Jeon's character goes through more mood swings than there are versions of Microsoft's operating system, and the hapless Gyun has to absorb them all. She drinks to oblivion, slaps him around, makes him exchange his sneakers for her high-heeled shoes as they walk through the park. It turns out she's still grieving over a previous relationship; Gyun guesses at what haunts her, but can't fully understand...
...don’t expect [implementing the HCECP report] will have an effect we won’t be able to absorb,” says Business School Chief Financial Officer Donella M. Rapier...
...nurse you didn't notice in Pearl Harbor and a character who didn't make it to the screen in Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry. No one seems to find the turnaround more risible than Garner herself. "It's like, let's just go quietly into the corner, absorb it and live with it for a while," she says. Thanking those who cast her in Alias during her Globes speech, she joked, "I know I was great in Dude, Where's My Car? but seriously...
...delicately tinted with pink, lavender, yellow. The foreground, with its purple house and lavender rocks, is already darkening. But the sunset has lit up the prismatic shape of the headland to a blazing orange-yellow, a thrilling and almost transcendent intensity. It is the kind of painting that can absorb any amount of looking, and after 10 minutes with it you can appreciate how Signac grasped the sensuous abundance of the world...