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Being a living lesson in tolerance--countering stereotypes, representing an entire religion--can be a heavy burden for such young shoulders to bear. "I guess I might respond that it's Allah's will what happens," Shamez reflected a few days after the jamboree ended. "It's Allah's will." And it's a scout's duty to do his best...
...second best defense last season. It also faces both of the other members of the Big Three, Penn and Brown, at home. The Quakers meanwhile must cope with the loss of the league’s premier receiver, Dan Castles, who shouldered most of the offensive burden during the squad’s undefeated 2003 campaign and its 8-2 run last year. While the Crimson must also replace a first team All-Ivy wideout in Brian Edwards, it has two of the league’s top talents at the position...
...make people believe that I am this character. It created a lot of nervous tension." Perhaps, but Benjamin happily allowed his agents to use his renown to get auditions, so he could hardly take offense at the parts he was reading for ("Andre 3000 knock-offs, basically") or the burden of being seen as just another rapper...
...Among U.S. commanders, the consensus is that U.S. and Iraqi forces are not capable of extinguishing the insurgency on the battlefield--which Rice acknowledged to TIME. "If you think about how to defeat an insurgency, you defeat it not just militarily but politically," she says. That has increased the burden on Rice to hammer out a political arrangement that can appeal to disaffected Sunnis and eventually allow the U.S. to beat a dignified retreat. "She's up to her ears" on Iraq, says a senior White House official. Rice was with Bush in Crawford, Texas, when he learned...
...price of perfection runs high in dollars too. Cheerleading clothes and camps typically cost about $1,000 a year. That's a problem in poorer schools like Euless. This year only 10 girls auditioned for 16 slots on the team. To ease the financial burden, the school decided to buy uniforms and lend them out. Many junior-high and middle schools, conscious of Texas' conservative values, impose a dress code for uniforms, requiring skirts that fall three inches below the fingertips and tops that cover the stomach and shoulders...