Word: bearings
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...perhaps that is Kotlikoff's crucial point and one that our presidential candidates should bear in mind. If our health-care woes are reaching critical mass, perhaps drastic measures are the only way to effect real change...
...Regardless, the chimp, who had an endearing passion for humans' shoes, provoked an important debate about just how similar we primates are to one another. She died after a brief illness at 42. The death of his wife, the lovely Deborah Kerr, seems to have been too much to bear. Barely three weeks after she died, writer Peter Viertel passed away, leaving behind his own legacy of books and screenplays. Best known for parlaying his relationships with writer Ernest Hemingway and director John Huston into novels like White Hunter, Black Heart, Viertel had a gift for exposing the dark nature...
...crucial for correcting this market distortion, truly impartial university financial advice would ensure fair lending practices. Bribes, or to put it euphemistically, incentives, require two actors: the giver and the receiver. Lenders are at fault for offering such inappropriate gifts and incentives to university officials, but unscrupulous university officials bear just as much blame for accepting these gifts. As administrators of educational institutions that not only teach, but also care for their students, financial aid officials are acting in loco parentis. They should be giving the same unbiased financial advice that a parent would give to her child, particularly because...
CORRECTION: The Nov. 8 magazine cover story "Our Burden to Bear" incorrectly stated that Chiki E. Gupta '08 intended to work in microfinance. In fact, Gupta does not plan to enter the field. In addition, the story incorrectly quoted Gupta. Gupta said, "My family is from India. Beyond just putting money into rural India, actually going out there and doing work would be really helpful. I think it's something my family would very much support, and it's something I've always been encouraged...
...report said the deaths were clinical killings. "Almost all the cadavers bear classic execution signs of a bullet behind the head exiting through the forehead," it said. The Mungiki (meaning multitude in the Kikuyu language) draw their inspiration from the Mau Mau guerrillas who rose against British colonial rule in the 1950s. They began in the 1980s as a quasi-religious movement to rid Kenya of cultural imperialism and return the country to its African traditions. Followers were believed to face Mount Kenya to pray and many grew their hair into dreadlocks...