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...proud that Samantha has got the recognition she deserves for this book, because it helps fulfill the Carr Center’s mandate, which is to think about the worst human rights abuses, how to respond to them, and why we so often fail to do so,” Ignatieff wrote in an e-mail...
Chernoff said counts on picket lines can be deceptive, because they fail to take into account strikers assisting in other ways...
...pair of lungs from someone with type-A blood, not Jesica's type O. Her immune system rejected the organs, and over the next few days, Jesica suffered seizure after seizure and was sustained only by life-support machines. Her new heart, ravaged by the immune assault, started to fail, and Jesica's tale turned from the stuff of American mythology into that of American tragedy. After a rare second transplant, doctors on Saturday told her parents Jesica was brain dead...
...there can be other costs as well. For example, unless lenders charge interest on their loans at the prevailing market rate, they may be liable for the difference if they're audited, says Brent Neiser, director of collaborative programs at the National Endowment for Financial Education. And if they fail to charge any interest at all and don't set repayment terms, the loan can be considered a gift that is subject to IRS gift-tax rules. Depending on the sum, the tax can run as high...
...gifted advisors to take things more seriously and to more capably manage their investment in their studies often do not wish to do so. Yet I have never encountered an admissions mistake in the sense that a student did not seem to have the capacity to graduate. Students who fail are asked to leave for a spell because they are not concentrating, not because they cannot succeed. Over the last eight years I have known a number of students asked to withdraw for a year for failure to meet minimum requirements, but I have never known anyone devoting...