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...also concerned that a mandatory increase will ultimately harm lower income students, despite assurances from the proposal’s backers that the hike will likely be covered by Harvard’s Financial Aid Office. The fee hike would not be a negligible burden for the office—more like on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Before the referendum goes up for a vote, the council must do the necessary leg-work to get a guarantee that students who cannot afford this increase will not be forced...
Kerry sometimes presses his case too hard. He criticizes Bush for failing to get countries like Saudi Arabia to share the financial burden of the Iraq war, the way Bush's father did in Gulf War I, and suggests that their refusal calls into question the second war's legitimacy--even though the Saudis helped out back in 1991 because Saddam was threatening their oil fields. In December, Kerry asked why countries like Germany and France would cooperate in the war on terrorism "after having been publicly castigated and even ridiculed for disagreeing over Iraq." In fact, American counterterrorism officials...
...with the Security Council before the vote, because I wanted to ascertain what their real state of mind was and whether or not they would be prepared to enforce the resolution, provide troops, whether or not they took it seriously, whether or not they would share costs and burden, and I came away convinced after a two-hour conversation, a lot of questions, that they would...
...compatible with E.U. standards. Cyprus will be a full member of the E.U., and any solution has to be in accordance with those standards. WHAT CAN GREECE DO TO CONVINCE GREEK CYPRIOTS TO BACK KOFI ANNAN'S PLAN? Each side has the responsibility to do his part ... [but ] the burden falls more on the Turkish Cypriot side. The Greek Cypriot government has made it clear that it has accepted the Annan plan as a basis of negotiations. GREECE AND TURKEY HAVE TO JOIN THE TALKS ON MARCH 22. DO YOU THINK ADDITIONAL TIME MAY BE NEEDED? We'll see. Everything...
...Congress failed to reauthorize the trust fund, shifting the burden from polluters to taxpayers. Since then, polluters have enjoyed a $4 million-a-day tax break at the expense of everyone else. In 1995, taxpayers covered just 18 percent of Superfund’s costs. This year, they will pay for a larger portion of the program. And now that the president has plunged the country into fiscal crisis, right-wing opponents of Superfund have an excuse to cut the program’s funding. Just when the Bush administration claimed it could not afford to add sites...