Word: burdenered
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...urge the College to follow through on the bill’s provisions. Ranging from $10 to over $400, coursepacks can be exorbitantly expensive for students. Thus far in 2006, sourcebooks and coursepacks have costs students over $700,000, most of which is spent on Core courses. The financial burden raises questions of educational inequity, as some students are driven away from otherwise engaging classes solely because of affordability. The College cannot simply stand by as the equality of academic opportunity at Harvard is threatened by the rising costs of these readings. The remedies are simple and obvious?...
...always been the background noise of the abortion debate. Beginning with Planned Parenthood v. Danforth in 1976, then in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, state efforts to require that fathers be notified before women have abortions were struck down by the Supreme Court as placing too great a burden on women. A majority of Americans approve of spousal notification, provided there are exceptions for women in abusive situations, and when he was an appeals court judge Sam Alito upheld such a provision. But the Supreme Court ruled in Casey that "it cannot be claimed that the father's interest...
Associate Professor of Government Barry C. Burden wrote in an e-mail that he was surprised to see more students respond “neutral” or “don’t know” for the question about Summers than for the question about FAS members’ handling of the situation...
...would have expected precisely the opposite, just in the way that it’s easier for the public to track the president than Congress,” Burden wrote...
...Baghdad, Khalilzad, 54, has earned the respect of both his Iraqi counterparts and his bosses in Washington for the enthusiasm and savvy he brings to the world's toughest job. "Right place, right guy, at the right time," says a U.S. official involved in Iraq policy. And yet the burden of trying to find a political solution to an increasingly brutal, costly and unpopular war is straining even Khalilzad's relentless optimism. He says he believes Iraq is "heading in the right direction," but those who know him say he is aware that he may be powerless to stop Iraq...