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...Berg believes the burden of proof has risen for the government. "It gives [the defense] hope because their entire defense is that (a) they were unaware of any criminal behavior, and (b) the company really wasn't in financial trouble. Now the jury is going to have to believe they knew of all the elements of the crimes alleged against them," says Berg...
...giving it directly to those who need it most for their books,” said Amadi P. Anene ’08, a UC representative who sponsored the act. STOP Campaign Co-Director Chaz M. Beasley ’08 said that lower-income students face a double burden of high textbooks costs—they may need to avoid courses with particularly expensive course literature, and when those courses are required, they often must rely on library reserves or fellow classmates for course materials.“We want to make sure, above all, that those costs don?...
...Friday night, the Prime Minister met with university rectors, many of whom have urged him to retract the law. Villepin signaled little willingness to do so, but there were signs that the government may be ready to beef up job protection in other ways, possibly by increasing the tax burden on employers who purposely use short-term contracts for revolving-door workers, and stiffening the laws regulating the use of internships. Yet withdrawing the law is no easy matter: the only legislative course would be a humiliating request to Villepin's own party to approve new legislation trumping...
...urge the College to follow through on the bill’s provisions. Ranging from $10 to over $400, coursepacks can be exorbitantly expensive for students. Thus far in 2006, sourcebooks and coursepacks have costs students over $700,000, most of which is spent on Core courses. The financial burden raises questions of educational inequity, as some students are driven away from otherwise engaging classes solely because of affordability. The College cannot simply stand by as the equality of academic opportunity at Harvard is threatened by the rising costs of these readings. The remedies are simple and obvious?...
...always been the background noise of the abortion debate. Beginning with Planned Parenthood v. Danforth in 1976, then in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, state efforts to require that fathers be notified before women have abortions were struck down by the Supreme Court as placing too great a burden on women. A majority of Americans approve of spousal notification, provided there are exceptions for women in abusive situations, and when he was an appeals court judge Sam Alito upheld such a provision. But the Supreme Court ruled in Casey that "it cannot be claimed that the father's interest...