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...wars go, the Balkans conflict makes for pretty grim TV--few pictures of bombings-in-progress, sparse information from NATO and no Scud Stud. With the burden of infotainment resting with the news correspondents, we review their performances...
...intangibles as the Internet, Goth culture and "The Basketball Diaries" (which was pulled from video store shelves Thursday by MGM) will all take their lumps, as Ozzy Osbourne and "Natural Born Killers" did before. But at least two homes in Littleton will not be able to escape the terrible burden of being the exact place where such evil hatched, grew and finally took flight...
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, part-time faculty and graduate student instructors do more than half of all teaching in American universities--shrinking the job market for newly-minted Ph.D.s and putting the teaching burden on lower paid and less experienced teachers...
...tech companies have started to fight back. Industry lobbyists have been working with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and other lawmakers to make it much harder to win lawsuits for injuries caused by Y2K glitches. Bills currently working their way through Congress would raise the burden of proof above the standard that plaintiffs must meet in other lawsuits--that their version of events is more likely true than not. And they would impose caps on punitive damages and attorneys' fees...
...cost of a party is another concern thehosts must address. Smolen says he charged fordrinks to ease the financial burden on the hosts...