Word: concerns
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...Kirchblum, for one, is now hunting for volunteer legal jobs overseas amid final exams, graduation and taking the bar exam. His biggest concern is money because he will only receive $20,000 from Milbank for being deferred, and he owes more than $100,000 in student loans. "Why I chose to take a firm job or even to go to law school in the first place was it seemed like the stable, responsible path," he says. "Now everything has been thrown...
...will make sure that the graders are more willing to work hard.” Because each grader will be expected to work more nights, the number of students per grader will remain the same, said Ge. Though graders said they thought the reforms were well-intentioned, some expressed concern over the staff reduction. “I just hope I’m hired next year,” said current test grader Eliza A. Lehner ’11. —Staff writer Liyun Jin can be reached at ljin@fas.harvard.edu...
...recent budget cuts. Although the university has only announced $77 million of the reported $220 million in cuts to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences budget, the most significant changes—closing the Quad’s Hilles library and drastically reconfiguring the shuttle schedule—directly concern only Quad students. With 25 percent of the Harvard undergraduate population bearing the brunt of the university’s cutbacks, it appears that George Orwell’s famous adage holds true: Some Harvard students are more equal than others...
...minor catastrophe for pork producers. Though international health officials were quick to assure the public that the disease initially known as swine flu could not be contracted by eating pork, consumption of pig products dropped rapidly in the wake of the virus's spread. "That is our biggest concern - the economic impact of people shying away from eating our product over fear," C. Larry Pope, CEO of Smithfield Foods, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch on May 5. The National Pork Producers Council estimated that between April 24 and May 1 - the most frenzied days of the H1N1 outbreak...
...National Committee •special session of will approve a resolution dreamed up by a super-silly member of (with the serendipitously silly name James Bopp, Jr.) to "rebrand" the Democratic party as the "Democrat Socialist Party" - yes, there's a constructive action that will surely convince voters of the concern for their well-being...