Word: burdens
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Strange things happened in that warehouse. The digital--back lot approach places an immense burden on the director. "Zack would go, 'Come and see this stage!'" says Lena Headey, who plays Leonidas' wife. "And we'd go, and there'd be, like, a rock. And we'd be like, 'Has he taken acid this morning? Or what's he looking at?'" Snyder had to make his actors see what he saw, and he saw things that weren't there yet. "Every now and then I'd stop and go, 'This is crazy!'" he says. "'What are we doing?' And then...
...accepting more--comes close to matching Syria's largesse. "The price of this disaster is being paid mainly by the refugees themselves and by two countries: Syria and Jordan," says António Guterres, the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees. "The international community can't let [them] bear this burden alone...
...students. “Who would be responsible for 24-hour treatment?” Dr. Paul J. Barreira, Harvard’s director of university counseling, academic support and mental health services, said in an interview. Barreira added that keeping a suicidal student on campus was an unfair burden to place on roommates of the mentally ill. He also said that universities would incur enormous costs providing such comprehensive treatment, which is not covered by current student medical coverage. Barreira said Harvard handles such situations on a case-by-case basis, and rarely punishes or expels students for attempting...
...history of race in America has been a power struggle between groups. Black people have not been oppressed on the basis of their individual faults; rather, individual black people have been discriminated against due to their association with the entire race. Though some individuals have managed to overcome the burdens of racial prejudice, black people are still looked down upon as a group. One of your black friends may seem trustworthy, but that doesn’t necessarily change your negative view of black people as a whole. It’s alright to have one or two black families...
...Even at Harvard I feel the burden of tokenism. Luckily, I learned how to deal with it in high school...