Word: burdenered
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...woman whose shoulders bear the burden of steering higher education’s grandest endowment through the most debilitating financial crisis in a half-century, Jane L. Mendillo cuts a decidedly unassuming figure.She speaks with measured confidence but betrays no ostentation. Her office, situated on the 16th floor of the Boston Federal Reserve Building, is adorned with little more than a few family photographs, three flat-panel monitors sitting atop her desk, and a comfortable view of Boston Harbor.But beneath her unobtrusive exterior, Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company, harbors a wealth of investment knowledge. She commands the respect...
...jurors serve only as subsidiary functionaries, determining whether the letter of the law has been broken. Arguments addressed to the jury’s wisdom and rightful power to check prosecutorial discretion are repressed as nullification. Jury service has become boring, often meaningless, and it is seen as a burden. We need to look back to our founding fathers. They intended the jury to be the bulwark of our liberty. Our modern juries should be and do no less...
...launch. The Gen Ed committee’s primary challenge has been to ensure that students have a wide enough variety of courses to choose from in the fall, according to former Gen Ed committee member Alexander N. Chase-Levenson ’08—placing the burden on professors to develop more offerings. “We can’t have anything new unless colleagues send us forward something new,” says Gen Ed committee member Julie Buckler, who is also a Slavic literature professor. Many more professors have sent in course proposals for existing...
...Board.“People have been threatened with the Ad Board for propping a door open in their room,” Sundquist said. “That’s a local issue that can easily be dealt with at a house level.”BURDEN OF ‘PERSUASION’One key reform is a new standard for guilt before the Ad Board.Right now, no formal threshold exists by which the board should decide whether or not a student should be punished. Next year, the board will have to be “sufficiently...
...temporary suspension of transfer admissions was explained last March as the result of overcrowded upperclass Houses that, when taking into account the number of students who would already be living in the Houses in the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years, could not feasibly take on the burden of any more students. Could the school not even accept 12 transfer students per year? That would amount to a grand total of one additional resident of each House...