Word: voids
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...refinancing isn't for everyone. Consolidating generally doesn't make sense for borrowers with just a few years remaining on their loans, since they would stretch out their term and pay more interest. Students with Perkins or Health Professional Loans also need to make sure that consolidation wouldn't void their deferment or cancellation privileges. And it's not an option for borrowers who have consolidated already; you can't go to the well again unless you go back to school and borrow more...
...Just a few took active part in this final ceremony. But in the beginning, in the first days after the attacks, each worker came to Ground Zero carrying something: A fear, an aching void, an ineffable rage. Firefighters turned up in memory of fallen colleagues. Police officers arrived clutching photographs of their dead. Fathers and brothers and sisters came for the backbreaking work, hoping perhaps to sweat out some of their tears...
...shield for future discrimination? If the class-action plaintiffs lose, not much. Under longstanding principles of contract law, courts will occasionally refuse to enforce non-negotiated or “adhesion” contracts whose terms are “unconscionable;” courts will also sometimes void contracts that are viewed as contrary to public policy. Yet the legal system is extremely hesitant to overturn agreements signed by both parties, and workers shouldn’t have to rely on the unpredictable intervention of a federal judge...
...straight seminarians, You have to be comfortable with who you are. You have to understand that sexual feelings are part of the human experience. The priesthood is a difficult life. If you find the stresses and the isolation so great, you're going to seek to fill the void...
...Between the 3rd and 8th centuries, Afghanistan experienced a fusion of Greek, Persian and Indian cultures. The Bamiyan statues, for example, showed traces of Greek influence, as if the sculptors had stolen the robes off Apollo, the Greek sun god, to drape their enormous Buddhas. "There's a cultural void left by the destruction of the two Buddhas," says Afghan archaeologist Zafar Paiman. "I'm sure that, if the reclining Buddha is found, the people of Bamiyan are ready to protect...