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...line when it can be shown that their speech encourages, incites and facilitates violence," says Cohen. "So the more Planned Parenthood can show the site is designed to encourage acts of violence against doctors, the more likely it is the group can prevail." But that is a high evidentiary burden to meet, particularly in a legal system that gives strong preference to the free dissemination of information. Whichever way this case goes, it is likely to become a landmark, and may ultimately have to be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...center. In this age of the outlaw, he defines the ideal norm: he is our best us on our worst day, soldiering on through heartbreak. In Saving Private Ryan, for which he may earn his third Oscar as the tough, paternal Captain Miller, Hanks has a moment when the burden of leadership in war has nearly broken him. He walks over a hillside from his fractious men (far enough away that no one will see him) and sobs (so softly that no one will hear him). He is discreet even in despair...
...think the reason I am disappointed by this change is that only students are affected by it-it requires no more effort on the part of the faculty (except adding a few more students to a few courses), but it does add a nontrivial burden to the requirements on certain students," Lewis wrote...
...offense. When the offense is unable to generate a good shot, Hill has been remarkably successful at creating his own. Even recently, against Sacred Heart and Marist, Hill propped up the offense almost single handedly during stretches of the game when the team struggled. Last night, however, the burden seemed too great...
...latest statistics from the Joint Committee on Taxation confirm what has been a long and disturbing trend. "The burden on the middle class has always been outsize," says TIME columnist Daniel Kadlec. "The last tax reform law simply did not include enough people." While it's good that low-income households are benefiting from tax breaks, Congress has failed to consider that married cops and schoolteachers, in households where both spouses work, can now jointly earn $100,000 a year. "But in big cities like New York or Chicago, that hardly makes them rich," says Kadlec...