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When asked about the hardships of filming Lord of the Rings for sixteen months straight in New Zealand, Wood replied that although “it was tough living away from home and enduring the schedule, it was more a joy than a burden. It was the opportunity of a lifetime...
Harvard’s deplorable practice is a symptom of a national trend. As institutions and companies have grown, they have hired other companies to provide ancillary services like cleaning and security. Harvard, in all its vastness, no longer wants the burden of managing and training a corps of custodians or security guards. Justifiably so; Harvard's primary mission is to educate, not to provide the cleanliness or security which undergird its academic pursuits...
...calling on Harvard to behave as a fair employer to its outsourced workers, although they are not directly employed by Harvard. The committee has recommended the University, establish a parity wage and benefits policy governing on-site contractors. Such a policy is a first step toward reshouldering the moral burden, if not the managerial burden, of the University’s obligation toward all its workers...
...hero when he returns home. Here the unwilling impostor is a screenwriter (Carrey) who escapes Hollywood when he's marked for blacklisting and ends up an amnesiac in a town claiming him as its own. Suddenly he's got a father (Landau), a girlfriend (Holden) and the burden of greatness...
...same time Arafat's popularity and authority have sunk to new lows. Since the Authority has never allowed much room for internal dissent, the joint operations have become a new outlet through which to criticize and embarrass Arafat. "We in Fatah are the ones who shouldered the burden of the peace project," says a West Bank security official, citing the group's work in building Authority institutions. "But in spite of what we have suffered, Arafat doesn't listen...