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...ssling, director of Berlin's famed Hanns Eisler Academy of Music: "Although the cutbacks are not huge, they are for us a matter of life and death." He says the cuts would eliminate 50% of the places at the school. Last fall, the city declared an "extreme budgetary hardship," the first step toward winning extraordinary financial help from the federal government. But the German government is in terrible financial shape too - and the two sides have failed to reach an agreement on aid. In the meantime, Berlin's mood grows darker. "When we talk about poverty in Germany, we usually...
...This combustible mix of economic hardship, increased political activity and simmering resentment against the regime loosely resembled the conditions that led to the 1988 democracy uprising, which the military brutally crushed. "The generals saw her crowds growing larger," says a diplomat, "and decided they had to stop it." Now, Burma has been locked down. The military has shut all NLD offices nationwide, put party leaders under house arrest and closed universities?traditional flash points of protest. Witnesses to the attack are in hiding and being hunted by security forces. And the generals? Says Aung Zaw, a Burmese opposition figure...
...help students cope with the costs of health care, the office of the Provost and Vice President for finance Ann E. Berman say they will establish a “hardship fund.” The fund will be distributed on a case-by-case basis next year...
...really a gender issue at stake. Paternity fraud devastates not only the men erroneously declared fathers, but also their families. This includes the children who really are theirs, whom they must also support, sometimes on meager incomes. Laws exonerating paternity fraud victims and rescuing their families from undue financial hardship deserve support, not the blind opposition and gendered hostility they have encountered...
...Workers, who in many cases have been unemployed or underemployed since the suspension of production at Tainan in the spring of 2002, have suffered grave financial hardship as a result of this illegal denial of employment, including, in some cases, the loss of their homes,” the report said. “Because this discrimination is ongoing, immediate remedial action...is essential to prevent further irreparable harm...