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Fortunately for Harvard, part of that excitement can now be easily attributed to the big kid who had the ill-fated burden of ending their season last year. The former unknown has already made great strides in making his mark both on the mound...
...classic is re-released to a public desperately in need of cinema that one imdb commentator terms “Intolerably Beautiful.” The film follows the journey of Balthazar, a donkey, from his happy early life, through his sojurn as a downtrodden beast of burden to his happy end-of-life working for a miller who thinks he is a reincarnated Saint. His journey parallels that of the lovely young girl who originally named Balthazar as she grows out of her beautific childhood into a terrible relationship where she is beaten by her sadistic lover. This film...
That left the burden squarely on the shoulders of student groups, who have to some extent welcomed the challenge. The UC recently proposed an increase in the student activities fee to pump-up its party-endorsing quotient...
...denies any agency to the populations of the colonies. Number-crunching may show that empire was necessary for infusions of capital, but it is far from sufficient in showing how benighted the world would have been if no one had taken up the white man’s burden...
...battle may be too close to call. The Pentagon's move this week to reinforce its troop levels in Iraq by delaying the return of some 25,000 troops due to have been cycled out underscores the extent to which new instability in the Shiite south adds to the burden on the already stretched combat resources available to Coalition commanders. The European peacekeepers deployed in the southern towns came to Iraq believing they would be operating in a relatively benign environment, freeing up U.S. forces for counterinsurgency actions in Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle. But the outbreak of hostilities...