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...House Masters require constant attention. William Bossert jokes that he used his children as “slave labor for entertainment” at weekly teas. For Greg, helping out at the teas “was hard work, hard even for me and my sister, without the burden of actually doing the Mastering...And it was hard to escape when it became too much, or too busy...
...very good at it." Many European armed forces, by contrast, are now structured with peacekeeping as their primary mission. In Bosnia, says Grant, American forces will not walk down a street unprotected, while British and French soldiers soak up information in cafes. Unsurprisingly, it is Europeans who shoulder the burden of keeping the peace in Kosovo, Bosnia and now Kabul. But suggest to European policymakers that their primary military role should be mopping up after the Americans have fought a war, and they throw a frightful fit, as if they were being relegated to the second rank. Given that European...
...addition to keeping pace with inflation. We may not enjoy paying more every year, but we do enjoy more freshman seminars, a larger Faculty and expanded financial aid—the administration’s well-publicized selling points. Nevertheless, the University has a history of raising the financial burden on undergraduates without a commensurate rise in the quality of their educational experience; this year’s hike is symptomatic of a larger problem...
...larger work-study requirement or greater post-college debt). But for the rest of Harvard’s students, whose parents make too much to see the costs absorbed by aid and too little for the costs to be an inconsequential expenditure, the tuition hike will be a real burden. Feeling the pinch of the recession, members of the middle class will be strained to come across an extra $1,681 to slide into Harvard’s already bulging wallet...
...nearly four years ago, Barkley adds, Congress asked the National Institutes of Health to begin identifying issues that “burden research”—and the cost of waste management ended up high on that list...