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Only one male student sits on the 19-member task force. As a result, several of its subcommittees include no members of the group most responsible for date rapes and most likely to bear the brunt of any new disciplinary process. Asked if the underrepresentation of men on the committee handicaps its efforts, Tucker said, "I don't think it's hurting our perspective...
...fund is in great danger of exhaustion, and we may all have to bear the brunt. My hunch is that at the rate the fund is shrinking, the banks don't have the resources to shore it up. We can raise the premiums they pay in, but that may just send more banks into ruin...
...reality, there was always a `line of fire' that would bear the brunt on the scoresheet. In the NCAA championship year of 1988-89, it was the line of Lane MacDonald, Allen Bourbeau and C.J. Young. Last year, Cleary teamed Young up with John Murphy and Mike Vukonich for the Crimson's highest point total...
...rollback would have a direct and disastrous effect upon education throughout the state. And while public colleges would undoubtedly feel the brunt of the blow, private universities--Harvard among them--will also suffer...
Given this more somber assessment of a war's costs, it is no wonder that the parameters of a peaceful solution, a deal, are being explored afresh by some of those who would bear the brunt of conflict...