Word: burdens
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After fellow Kazmaier winner Julie Chu ’06-07 graduated from Harvard, the burden of leading the Crimson’s offensive attack was placed squarely on Vaillancourt’s shoulders. For Vaillancourt to succeed in this endeavor, she would have to make significant adjustments to her game...
...limit admission to the most academically proficient will be the easy way to dispose of the growing burden of applications, but the Committee on Admissions should attempt, as much as possible, to continue its policy of seeking a diverse college body. To do so will require an increasingly larger admissions staff, but the money expended will be worthwhile if Harvard avoids a mechanistic, mathematical selection of admissions candidates...
...enormous responsibility that had come to me—I didn’t feel prepared for it,” the Aga Khan told the BBC that year. “It was a very, very heavy burden to take over...
...that last argument - that cap and trade may place a financial burden on ordinary Americans - that may be the biggest sticking point for Warner-Lieberman or whatever comes after it. Conservative groups like the National Association of Manufacturers have released studies that claim the bill will ruin the American economy by raising the price of energy through the roof. But in reality, that scenario is unlikely - the balance of economic studies, including one by the Environmental Protection Agency, say the bill's economic cost will be manageable, and a raft of studies claim that the economic cost of doing nothing...
...bodes well for Dorje that he is able to make light of turbulence. As the Karmapa, Tibetan Buddhism's third-ranking personage, he has carried the immeasurable burden of his people's expectations, supernatural and worldly, since he was first recognized at age 7 by a religious search party. The delegation was following the directions in a "prediction letter" left in a locket by the previous Karmapa when he died in 1981; it included Dorje's birth year, parents' names (Dondrub and Loga) and a location. According to followers of the Kagyu branch of Buddhism, the child persuaded his nomad...