Word: hardships
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...real historical figure. After a hell-raising youth, Cupido converts to Christianity and becomes the first "Hottentot", or Khoi, missionary ordained in the Cape region. The passionate new recruit is sent to proselytize in a remote area - where the church cruelly forgets him, plunging him into near-fatal hardship. As in more than a dozen other novels, including A Dry White Season (the 1989 movie version won Marlon Brando an Oscar nod), Brink rails against righteous colonialism, the father of apartheid. "My God, my God, what have we done in the name of that dominion and for the sake...
...season.This week, both Mazza and Crimson coach Tim Murphy indicated that, unless the wideout makes a miraculous recovery, he will look to gain an extra year of eligibility.The Ivy league does not allow players to redshirt a year, but it does provide a “fifth-year medical hardship eligibility year” if a player does not compete in more than two games in a season due to injury.Mazza played in Harvard’s opener against Holy Cross and was injured in the fourth quarter against the Bears in his second game, and has not seen...
...says Heinberg. The problem with the free market, in short, is that while it may sort things out over the long run, people have to cope in the short run. "Price signals," he adds, "come much too late, and we will endure a tremendous amount of economic and social hardship that could have been averted if we'd acted sooner. We could see the equivalent of the Great Depression, fueled by extreme oil and natural-gas prices...
These discussions, however, will almost always be lacking voices truly representative of poverty. And the vast majority of individuals in the position to exacerbate or alleviate poverty are too far removed from its consequences to empathize. Though many individuals at Harvard have endured economic hardship, or know individuals that have, there are still a great many obstacles in the way of real understanding...
...inspired reforms as a repeat of the widely reviled 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, which led to the Ottoman Empire being dismantled by foreign powers. "Turks are fed up," says Haluk Cetin, a 30-year-old nationalist activist and manufacturer of ice-cream-making equipment. "Rising terrorism, economic hardship and now all this pressure from the E.U. Turks are patient people, but once they reach boiling point, anything could happen." Erdogan understands that his government is at risk from nationalists, but he also has his own political constituents to cater to, many of them in the prosperous conservative Muslim...