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...form of loans, the initiative represents an admirable step toward ensuring that cost need not dissuade talented students from pursuing careers in medicine, regardless of those students’ means or background. The decision to expand aid was largely motivated by hopes that reducing indebtedness might lessen the burden on recent graduates to select “more lucrative specialties”—such as plastic surgery—after graduation. The medical school sees higher debts as the impetus behind a trend that has seen a decrease in the proportion of the school’s graduates...
...questions with no answers, and an exploration of the nature of memory. These characteristics make Pinter’s work wonderfully frustrating and absorbing, but at the same time create difficulties for the director, who must clearly convey the central ideas despite an often indiscernible reality.In this case, that burden falls upon not one, but three directors. The dual roles taken on by Pastel, Pecci, and Renaud, who direct and perform the play, add to the production’s intimacy. It is clear that the three are comfortable with one another, which adds a new level of complexity...
...understand Harvard participates in [financial aid] efforts, but it appears to be insufficient,” Flier said in an interview last July, shortly after being appointed. “Part of my job as dean is to work to raise the funds so that we can reduce the burden of debt on our graduates...
...establish child support guidelines, determine foster care payments and appraise damage arising from personal injuries and wrongful death suits. They are also, ironically, intended to "educate anyone who is considering when or whether to have children."? No wonder so many of us are unprepared to handle the financial burden of parenthood, and critical family services are woefully under-budgeted. Last month, the Bush Administration announced plans to eliminate the American Time Use Survey, a five-year-old project conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Census Bureau has been similarly stymied by budgetary cuts and ideological opposition. Given...
...Reformer's Burden For most other Senators, especially those lacking presidential ambitions, such untoward appearances would not raise much of an eyebrow. On any given day, thousands of lobbyists work their connections on Capitol Hill, hoping to obtain letters on their behalf or legislation in their favor. But for McCain, such questions become an issue of integrity. He is the one, after all, who regularly breaks the Senate's code of silence by alleging corruption by his peers. "Elected officials do act in particular ways in order to assist large soft-money donors," McCain wrote in a sworn statement from...