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Dunne and Shin have a common bond: they are two Harvard undergraduates without sight. That means they bear the added responsibility of finding readers for or recordings of their academic texts, getting assistants to help with research and proofreading of papers and of having printed syllabi published in Braille. Chores they do almost entirely independently of the University...
Although few favor mandatory disclosure, there seems to be an emerging consensus that women should be encouraged to admit that they have been victims of a form of assault for which they need bear no guilt. "There's still a tendency to blame the victim," says Sarah Burns, of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. To help demythologize the crime, some prominent women have openly acknowledged that they were victims of sexual assault. In a law-review article, Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis' campaign manager, admitted she had been raped. So did actress Kelly McGillis, co-star of The Accused...
Private investments from West Germany will fund most of East Germany's makeover, but the Bonn government will bear the huge costs of swapping the East's nonconvertible currency for deutsche marks and establishing social benefits, like unemployment insurance, in the East. But Pieroth insists that those expenditures will be offset by an additional one to two percentage points of economic growth he reckons will be created in West Germany by new business opportunities in the East...
...These are people who are going to get sick more regularly and have no health insurance," said Pinney. "They will be served by the health care industry and some one is going to bear that cost...
...constitutional protection of freedom of association and the staff's broad definition of business activity are incompatible. Under the staff's interpretation of anti-discrimination law, every group which met to play cards or watch TV would not only be subject to sanctions from MCAD, but would bear the burden of proving its innocence as well...