Word: assaultive
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...departure from the legacy of the civil rights movement, Williams writes in his strongest, most essential argument. He backs it up by recounting both the courageous sacrifices made by students in Little Rock and Oxford to gain access to all white schools, as well as the heartbreaking assault and robbery of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks by a black youth who broke into her Detroit home...
...river from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. With a third of Darfur’s 7.4 million people displaced and an estimated 200,000 killed by the conflict since it began in 2003, aid agencies continue to report new bloodshed. Gopvernment-armed Arab Janjaweed militias are launching a fresh assault in Southern Darfur, while opposing Darfuri rebel groups are said to be re-arming in neighboring Chad. If fighting continues, already malnourished farmers won’t be able to harvest their staple crop of millet and Darfur’s four-month-old peace accord will lie in tatters...
...handoff on a reverse in the final minute of the first half of the Lehigh game.This Saturday, Harvard’s receivers will look to continue their success against Cornell, the No. 1 pass defense in the league.While the Big Red will most likely be focusing its defensive assault on Dawson, the Crimson’s receiving corps won’t mind flying under the radar as long as it’s landing in the end zone...
...they jump on it. I am certainly not condoning or defending the actions of any of the players involved in the misconduct, but let’s look at what has really occurred. Matt Thomas ’06-’07, who was arrested for assault and battery last June, clearly committed the most serious offense. If the allegations against Thomas are true, then there is no logical or defensible reason for what he did. He deserves his punishment, and it is understandable that Harvard football will be guilty by association. As for the two more recent matters...
...standardized testing, the No. 3 Harvard co-ed and women’s sailing teams took to the waters this weekend with a vengeance, competing in no less that five regattas. Missing senior captain Christina Dahlman due to the LSAT exam, the women’s team continued its assault on college sailing with a victory in Boston University’s Regis Bowl. Consistency and depth carried the day as the Harvard women placed second in both the A and B-divisions to capture the overall title. Sophomore skipper Roberta Steele and sophomore crew Christina Cordeiro finished second...