Word: burdens
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...people believe that I'm not Andre 3000, 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 or the burden of being seen as just another rapper. The noblest solution might have been to stop using his fame. The smartest was to use his fame differently. Benjamin asked his agents to cold-call directors he respected to find out whether they would be willing to have lunch. More often than...
...requires a face. And the argument that non-verbal communication is inessential only addresses half the problem. The obscured woman, who can see her interlocutor clearly through her slits, is enjoying contact with a face; it's the other party, conversing with a tiny black tent, that bears the burden of the discomfort. It would be more sincere for niqab-wearers to say that they accept the cost of refusing to compromise on the niqab; that it will be considered provocative by their non-Muslim fellow citizens, that it might slow their own assimilation into British society...
...students at the IOP. It’s true that the Earned Income Tax Credit is less romantic than the Peace Corps—which almost no IOP students will join—and quietly hunting down terrorists doesn’t have the emotional appeal of bearing any burden or fighting any foe. But idealism and Kennedy nostalgia will not rescue politics from the likes of Mark Foley. If we cannot make politics virtuous, we can at least make it effective, and to that end, a generation of hard-headed realists may be just what the doctor ordered.Joshua Patashnik...
...selected and served in Cambridge last April on a four-day trial that resulted in the defendant’s conviction for sexual assault and battery.Leng says she missed all of her classes on the first day of the trial, but subsequent days were shortened to alleviate the burden on serving jurors.She says she thought jury duty was a great experience. “I am a government concentrator and I thought it was really cool to see lawyers at work,” she says.Leng adds that she had few reservations about serving because she is a Massachusetts native...
...Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota Michael T. Osterholm wrote in an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. “Each year, despite our efforts to increase the rates of influenza vaccination in our most vulnerable populations, unpredictable factors largely determine the burden of influenza disease and related deaths,” according to Osterholm’s editorial...