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...Chris, 32, was an actor. A struggling one, he said. But he was determined to endure any hardship.... pay any price... bear any burden... to win the million dollars. What if the series was shot in Antarctica? I asked. Well, that was different. He was from Alabama, and he didn't like the cold...
...Administration calls the Hanssen case a convenient excuse to clean out a growing nest of Russian spies in the U.S. As the number of agents crept back to cold war levels?up 40% since 1995, to 160?the FBI complained of the burden on its counterintelligence teams and its budget. The CIA said tossing out Moscow's agents would only mean the loss of U.S. assets in Russia. Clinton tried to soft-talk Moscow into cutting back but failed; the incoming Bush team was eager...
...mother. In this sense she is a big sullen sister to Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girls. They too are the spawn of a biological experiment. (They also levitate, like the Tiger women.) And though the show is perky, and its pace frenetic, the Girls carry the burden of others' expectation. When things go wrong, the Townsville adults chant, "Your fault! Your fault!" There is a poignancy to the Girls' perfection...
...burden to be treated as the symbol of an entire nation...
...though tenuring internal candidates does not increase the size of the faculty, it does shift the burden of the search process onto junior appointments, which are typically easier to make...