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...reassured that someone is assigned to look after them.“I think one of the real benefits of compensating the Fellows, that is, recognizing the responsibility of the Fellows, is that it allows the freshmen to not feel that they’re being a burden,” advising program manager Brooks Lambert-Sluder ‘05 says. “Freshmen can see that this is the Fellows’ job and they don’t feel bad when they IM their Fellow at 10 PM asking how to get to a certain class...
...trumps the individual. "It's a notion of collective responsibility," says Mike Breen, the author of The Koreans. When a Korean does something wonderful, the country rejoices, but when one of its own goes off the rails, like Cho Seung-Hui, there's a collective sense of shame and burden. So much so that South Korea's Ambassador to the U.S., Lee Tae Shik, pledged to fast for 32 days to show his sorrow today. "I can smell a collective sense of guilt," says Lim Jie-Hyun, a history professor at Hangyang University in Seoul. "There is confusion [in Korea...
...court also turned back arguments that the law was too vague and an "undue burden" on the constitutional right. The law's challengers said its imprecision would stop not only "intact D&E" - the controversial process of removing the fetus whole (hence the phrase partial birth) - but also standard D&E, which involves removing the fetus in pieces. Together, the procedures account for most second-trimester abortions. But Kennedy, writing for the court majority of himself, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, said the statute was plenty precise, especially since a doctor couldn't violate it without...
...formed a coalition with other student arts organizations on campus to persuade the administration to allow continued use of Burden Auditorium...
...recent Burden Auditorium policy reflects this difference, and this is the reason why we have been willing to take Burden Auditorium off-line once a year and devote extra resources to ensure the show’s success,” Badaracco wrote in an e-mailed statement...