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...certainly seems to attract those people who like a certain bit of hardship,” said senior Kip McDaniel, a stroke of the men’s heavyweight team...
State officials had a number of options, from cutting services again to lowering the enrollment cap. Representatives of the medical community advised an approach that cut costs while minimizing hardship on children and encouraging families to remain insured. They argued that policies which pushed parents away from state insurance programs meant children would not get necessary services and those with urgent healthcare needs would be forced to rely on the emergency room as their primary care provider—a dangerous and expensive proposition. Of all the options available to state administrators, raising premiums was the most likely to push...
...Aristide endured three years of exile, the grassroots supporters of this democratic movement suffered the greatest hardship. With tacit support from the first Bush administration, training from U.S. Special Forces and CIA financing, the military dictatorship and its paramilitary forces murdered thousands whose only crime was supporting democracy. Little over a decade later, the U.S. has allowed these same paramilitary forces to come to power. Their only demand: to reinstate the military that Aristide abolished...
...After retiring from public life and entering the Zen Buddhist order as a monk, Yoshimasa freely indulged his passions for architecture, gardening, literature and fine art. Early in his reign, he gained notoriety for building lavish palaces, even during times of terrible hardship for most of his people; in retirement, he turned to a more discreet, muted style. The highest expression of this restrained aesthetic was the Silver Pavilion, a superbly balanced temple made entirely of wood and paper at Yoshimasa's place of retreat in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto. Architectural historians consider the Ginkaku...
...shot of Alcalay performing his most arduous daily task: the morning climb to his third-story studio. Alcalay mounts the stairs with a cane, one hand gripping the rail. The artist himself is narrating, as he does for most of the film, describing painting, in this moment of hardship, as the “pinch...