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...injuries began Cusworth’s sophomore year, when a preseason stress fracture of his right foot prevented him from playing in a single game. Cusworth withdrew from the college for the spring semester after the extent of the injury was determined and successfully applied for a Medical Hardship Waiver, allowing him to play during a fifth year. But because of the league’s prohibition of redshirting, even for medical reasons, along with the ban on extra semesters for non-academic reasons, there was no way, short of enrolling in a Harvard graduate school, that Cusworth could recoup...
...helped through interest-rate subsidies and welfare payments designed for those calamities that happen only once in 25 years. Howard told ABC-TV's Landline program that the point of the assistance is to help farmers "keep food on the table and to meet normal living expenses." Given the hardship in many parts of the bush, urban taxpayers can hardly be called heartless or stingy. In any case, it's a fat time for government revenue collection, so a helping hand is not causing general resentment. Not yet, anyway...
...perhaps it was out of this intimate knowledge of hardship, the grounding of faith in struggle, that the historically black church offered me a second insight: that faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts, or that you relinquish your hold on this world. Long before it became fashionable among television evangelists, the typical black sermon freely acknowledged that all Christians (including the pastors) could expect to still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced. The gospel songs, the happy feet, and the tears and shouts all spoke of a release, an acknowledgment...
...Ferranti-Dege’s friendly atmosphere was not enough to save it from financial hardship...
...Students can petition the College for reimbursement if a particular assessment poses a hardship,” Mitchell wrote...