Word: hards
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...Montreal Gazette printed the following editorial in response to this trend in the Canadian sport: "The public is increasingly fed up with the mediocre NHL product, the high ticket prices, and the bloated player salaries. It would be hard to think of a more undeserving recipient of taxpayer charity...
...created in 1974 to coordinate Harvard's program for assistance, training, and research in the developing world. The institute had 20 overseas offices and 25 more international programs headquartered in Cambridge and an annual budget of over $34 million--more than some of Harvard's graduate schools. Unwieldy and hard to manage, HIID had been tarnished in recent years by allegations of scandal and corruption in Russia...
Furthermore, most HIID staff do research but do not pass it on to students, graduate or undergraduate, and therefore do not contribute directly to the education of Harvard students. International consulting may have been hard to come by 40 years ago; today, these projects, in and of themselves, do not serve Harvard's best interest...
...Washington's response to last year's Pakistani incursion onto the Indian side of the cease-fire line in the disputed territory of Kashmir marked something of a shift, in that the U.S. came down hard on its traditional ally and insisted that Pakistan withdraw. "Even then," says Rahman, "New Delhi's historical suspicion of American motives remains. India is riled by the fact that the U.S. won't treat it as a responsible nuclear power, and it deeply resents being viewed in the same category as Pakistan...
Students are well aware that their year at Harvard costs them a precious $34,350. It's hard to tell, though, where all that money goes on its way to making a difference in their lives...