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...Like Father, Like Daughter? Not if I Can Help It Those of us physicians who feel the heavy bureaucratic burden of medicine are much less likely to encourage our children to follow in our footsteps
...season-ending losing streak. Paced by a defense that ranks towards the top of the Ivies in the major statistical categories, Penn is guaranteed to be in the thick of things until the final weekend. The team is led by a bruising tailback who shoulders much of the offensive burden. Plus, the Quakers are at their best at Franklin Field. If you haven’t examined 2005 yet, go back and peek about: it’s all Kelly Clarkson and gay cowboys. So, you’ve had a look around the decade. Which scenario does 2006 more...
...general education” course. It should also be more active in soliciting student and faculty input on which existing courses might satisfy a general education requirement. The current system usually requires a professor to submit an application to the CSC, which places too high of a burden on professors and leads to too few Core classes. The new committee should seek out potential general education courses, rather than the reverse...
...people believe that I'm not Andre 3000, that I am this character. It created a lot of nervous tension." Perhaps, but Benjamin happily allowed his agents to use his renown to get auditions, so he could hardly take offense at the parts he was reading for or the burden of being seen as just another rapper. The noblest solution might have been to stop using his fame. The smartest was to use his fame differently. Benjamin asked his agents to cold-call directors he respected to find out whether they would be willing to have lunch. More often than...
...requires a face. And the argument that non-verbal communication is inessential only addresses half the problem. The obscured woman, who can see her interlocutor clearly through her slits, is enjoying contact with a face; it's the other party, conversing with a tiny black tent, that bears the burden of the discomfort. It would be more sincere for niqab-wearers to say that they accept the cost of refusing to compromise on the niqab; that it will be considered provocative by their non-Muslim fellow citizens, that it might slow their own assimilation into British society...