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This turned out to be true. The Handbook for Students does indeed put the onus on the students. (You just knew there was fine print involved somewhere, didn't you?) I was not however, "the only person out of 170" to "miss" the make-up information, as the man from the Registrar's Office claimed. I found out later that several other people were similarly screwed...
...Burton felt these burdens -- or the onus of topping himself after four films (Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands), all of them critical and popular hits -- he didn't show it. No screaming, no broken crockery. "He's the most un-Hollywood person I've ever met," says his co-producer, Denise Di Novi, who believes Burton's breakthrough came with Scissorhands, another Christmas phantasmagoria about lonely creatures making sad magic in the snow. "He connected with himself," she says, "and his art became much more intimate." Now, without Batman producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters hovering...
...think the context of 'a board was imposed onus' is completely wrong," Sperling said. "thecontext that the board was agreed to because weneeded 'stricter supervision' is categoricallyuntrue...
That burden shifting bothers many civil rights activists who otherwise care deeply about violence against women and children. "We feel this bill is censorship," says Marilyn Fitterman of the New York State chapter of the National Organization for Women. "It takes the onus off the criminal and blames the publishers and artists." Nancy Ryan of the Cambridge women's commission, which opposed a similar measure introduced in that Boston suburb, argues that "the men who did these acts would have done them without pornography." Others contend that the evidence linking pornography to systematic violence is more anecdotal than statistically solid...
Republican Club President Harry J. Wilson '93 agrees. "A lot of people are placing the onus on the gay issue, rather than realizing that it actually revolves around the cadets who need scholarship funds," he says...