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...stubborn grandfather figure once again played by Alan Arkin.Mac’s suggestion that Rose quit her day job as a maid and become a different kind of cleaning lady offers both girls a chance to turn their lives around. Through shared triumph over hardship??disposing of everything from a finger to a maggot-infested paper bag—the girls move from insulting one another to forming a substantial and trusting relationship.The film’s premise, inspired by a National Public Radio report on two best friends’ real-life foray into the biohazard...
...high wall that blocked their escape route in education.I couldn’t help but feel sorry for these students, as it seems unlikely that Kaplan will open a branch in Ramallah anytime soon. While I expect that Harvard’s international admissions standards take into account their hardship??they stop short of setting a minimum required score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language, for instance—qualified applicants from troubled environments cannot hope for anything resembling the leniency shown to Ben-Eze, who apparently was guaranteed admission so long as he could...
...less likely to register to vote, but they are very likely to have driver’s licenses.”The Office of Jury Commissioner says on its website that it understands that “many people consider jury duty an inconvenience, an intrusion, and a hardship?? and has implemented measures intended to lessen the hassle of jury duty. Massachusetts, for example, uses the “one day, one trial” system, whereby jurors serve either one day or, if selected to serve on a jury, one trial.After jurors have fulfilled this requirement, they...
...while there are non-military positions, all service must be deemed to “promote the national defense.” Moreover, the only deferments or postponements allowed will be for full-time high school students, or those suffering from extreme “hardship?? (which goes charmingly undefined) or from mental or physical disability...
...civilian service; it would be the choice of the President what groups would serve in active military service. The President alone would be arbiter of how much (and even if) those performing their “national service” would be paid (which casts the “hardship?? reference in a whole new light). Effectively, it would give the President of the United States the power to demand two years of potentially unpaid labor in any capacity—including military service—from nearly every man and woman in the country between the ages...