Word: offer
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Whatever it is they offer--buzz, cool, a psychological boost--Clinton needed it. So it was unsurprising, if a little weird, to see her staffers injecting SNL into their talking points the following Monday. See, Mom? TV criticism is a real...
...ignoring a serious problem can serve to make it worse, particularly at a school as demanding as Harvard, where work can pile up and become overwhelming when combined with already existing mental health issues. There is 24-hour support available from UHS, and a number of the counseling groups offer hours accommodating to student schedules. Room 13, Echo, CHI, DAPA, Student Mental Health Liaisons and a number of other groups offer support and counseling to students in unobtrusive ways. Numerous undergraduates sacrifice countless hours volunteering to be on call and provide support and advice for students who need someone...
...journalist, who has covered the courts for longer than all but one supreme justice has served, would finalize the details of her severance from the Times. But several connoisseurs of the court system expressed their disappointment with the news yesterday.Greenhouse, who is 61, took the newspaper up on its offer to buy out her contract in exchange for her departure.“This is shocking and it’s most unfortunate. However good a deal Linda got out of it, the country is so much worse off,” said constitutional law scholar Laurence H. Tribe...
...featuring a photo of a charred, mud-crusted corpse on its front cover. Some of the CD sellers are displaced villagers; others are merely hoping to make a little money. One man cheerfully says he is a pickpocket. For 10,000 rupiah, or about one dollar, the touts offer visitors motorbike tours of the site. One, a laconic, mostly toothless man named Purwanto, says he was a farmer before the mud smothered his rice fields. He now makes extra cash taking tourists to the wreckage of his house, located in the shadow of the levees. Purwanto's village flooded last...
...government team says the gas coming from Lusi has no ill effect, locals complain of difficulty breathing and strange rashes). Mostly, though, they complain about money. On the orders of the Indonesian government, Lapindo has agreed to compensate the villagers with a total of $412 million - the company is offering 20% of the money up front, with the balance paid within two years. "It will not be enough," says Riati, a 45-year-old woman sitting outside the 16-ft.-wide (5 m wide) cubicle where she lives with her husband and sister. Riati says she turned down Lapindo...