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Because the new move-in date allows students tomove in over a weekend and still be in Cambridgefor registration, Dingman said the policy "willaddress that family hardship...
...added that being "required to do personalhousekeeping and volunteering" at the same timewas a hardship...
...international body had been alarmed at Suharto's plan to peg the rupiah to the dollar, which would force up interest rates and bring even greater economic hardship to a nation already in the grip of mounting social turmoil. President Clinton on Friday called Suharto -- for the second time this month -- to urge him to comply with IMF requirements for the $43 billion bailout of Indonesia. "Suharto is sitting on a political volcano," says Van Voorst, "which is why it's not easy for the IMF to simply pull the plug on its promised bailout. The collapse of Indonesia...
...Mass or evangelical services, and the religion with the most adherents of all--perhaps half the population--is the Afro-Cuban rite of Santeria. Its babalaos (spiritual guides) far exceed the Catholic priests in influence, but its home-based, loose network of competing sects poses no political threat. Economic hardship is a powerful motivator: many of those new congregants of all faiths are searching for material sustenance in the food and medical aid of the church charities, including Caritas, that are now allowed to funnel foreign contributions into Cuba. The church appeals more as a spiritual sanctuary than...
...whose leaders had all too often been ineffectual boys manipulated by regents. Beset by imperialists of all stripes, the farsighted Lama, in his last written testament, predicted a time in Tibet's history, soon, when "monks and monasteries will be destroyed...[and] all beings will be sunk in great hardship and overwhelming fear...