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...should cleaning up Augusta really be solely a black man's burden? Woods seems to understand that his superstar status requires him to speak up about discrimination whenever he can. He has tried to put himself on the right side of the Augusta issue by saying he favors admitting female members to the club "because it's the right thing to do," but he declines to boycott the Masters because "it's not the players' fault" that Augusta is sexist. He has not said anything as ludicrous as his buddy Michael Jordan reportedly did in explaining his refusal to support...
...militarily to noncompliance. Day by day, Washington disparaged the process. After Iraq declares its arsenal, the White House and the Pentagon said, the regime must lead inspectors to the possible weapons sites and let them question everyone working there. Bush said disarmament, not inspections, was the goal and the burden was on Saddam to prove Iraq was defanged...
Ensuring that all hospitality workers can work free of life-threatening second-hand smoke is a major success for public health that will not impose a major economic burden on Boston’s restaurants, bars or nightclubs. A recent survey of sales tax data in over 80 cities and towns published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice found that restaurant revenues were not affected by laws restricting smoking. Even in Beverly Hills, the first city in California to enact a complete restaurant smoking ban, sales tax data indicates that there was no subsequent drop in restaurant...
...It’s hard that the burden of proof is on us,” she says. “I really find the Election Commission things unfair...
After being forced to carry the Crimson on his shoulders last year, Harvey has been greatly relieved of a lot of the scoring burden this season. Forward Sam Winter (11.6 ppg, 7.2 rpg) has been steady up front and Brady Merchant (13.2 ppg) has moved into the starting lineup to bring offense to a small forward position that offered mostly a defensive presence the last two years with Andrew Gellert...