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Blame it in part on jitters, part on inexperience, but for Harvard his poor decision-making must bear the brunt of the blame for the 27-25 loss to Holy Cross...
...Labor party, which governed Israel for the first three decades of its independence, has borne the brunt of the resultant hostility, and despite apologizing for its past ill-treatment of the Sephardim, it continues to suffer their ire. Shas recently bolted Prime Minister Ehud Barak's coalition, and last week helped defeat his nominee for president - the ur-Ashkenazi Shimon Peres - instead electing an Iranian-born legislator from the opposition. But the contempt for European Jewry implied by Rabbi Yosef's depiction of Holocaust victims signals a new low, and the fact that it came as part of a sermon...
...under-appreciated comic genius of the play may very well be John-Paul Giugliano '01in his role as Governor, Innkeeper and unsuspecting knight. Bearing the brunt of Quixote's delusion by providing him with both lodging and a stage upon which to play out his fantasies, Giugliano is the perfect small businessman. He struggles earnestly to please the demands of his no-nonsense wife (Lara Z. Jirmanus '01) while accommodating the out-of-control antics of his patrons without losing dignity...
...Zeckhauser's assistants, Polly Price, associate vice president for human resources, and Kim A. Roberts '78, director of the office of labor and employee relations, served as experts on the University's labor policies, and bore the brunt of the committee's charge to gather as much data as possible about casual and contracted employees...
Sure enough, the boats headed towards a "face-off," as he describes it, and the crew boat took the brunt of the damage. Its bow snapped off, and the boat began taking on water...