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...been trying to control their excitement as the moment approached when their hero was to take the stage. A rock star of politics, he didn't disappoint. Clad in the distinctive garb that has made him famous worldwide, he challenged the audience to remember those suffering under the burden of crippling debt or dying from AIDS. But Canada, he said, with a most un-Canadian sense of self-congratulation, was alive with a sense of idealism. When he finished his speech, his rapturous fans were ready to follow him on whatever political quest he might lead them...
...been a clear cap on when anyone could get food, whether it wereseconds or not, then Dartboard might understand. After all, there are shifts that dining hall employees are eager to leave, and having yet another undergraduate asking to go in past the designated meal time is a burden...
This year’s decline in applications to Harvard is reflective of the potential benefits of the new policy, which Harvard representatives say is intended to both reduce the burden on admissions officers and encourage students to more carefully consider the early application decision...
...billion dollars a year—approximately 15 times the amount that the Food and Agriculture organization estimates is necessary to halve the world’s population of hungry people by 2015, and about 10 times what Jeffrey D. Sachs suggests is necessary to eliminate the extra burden of disease in the developing world...
...like a grad student. "I wanted to have an intimate knowledge about Nelson," he says. "I wanted to feel the sense of him, because Jack served with him as a very young man, at least that's the legend of the fictitious character. None of this research is a burden," he adds. "I'm just inquisitive...