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...feed from Martin five minutes in, cutting the Wildcat lead to single digits at 11-2. But New Hampshire responded just one minute later on an unassisted shot from attacker Moira Talbot.Back and forth scoring continued until the end of the match.“[The Wildcats] asserted their game on us, and we weren’t able to push back and assert our game on them,” Bobzin said.New Hampshire netminder Ashley Milley, the reigning America East Conference Defensive Player of the week, contained Harvard throughout the afternoon with six saves in 60 minutes of play...
TIME: You said you'd like a better examination of Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience. What exactly will you criticize in her foreign policy experience? OBAMA: Here's what's happened in this race. She has been able to assert throughout this campaign that she has 35 years of experience, that makes her more qualified. She hasn't won the debate on policy in this race. What she did, especially over the last two weeks, is essentially question my capacity. And so, if somehow she can discount my 20 years of experience working as a civil rights attorney...
...saying you're more qualified than she is? What I'm saying is that she has been able to assert experience that isn't backed up by a whole host of facts other than that she's been there...
With the arrival of February, rain has settled in for its months-long tyranny over Cambridge. In curbside puddles and swaths of viscous mud where grass once grew, it will assert its hegemony over our springtime world, aggravating harried pedestrians and turning landscapers’ jobs Sisyphean. The familiarity of the phenomenon makes it no less intolerable—ineluctable and universal, the spring rains dampen life in both senses of the term...
Naturally, there's a good measure of international payback here. For source nations, the idea of cultural property is a way to assert their sovereignty against those great powers that once picked through their treasures. It's also a defense against the suction of the present-day free market, which could easily vacuum up whatever the colonial powers haven't carted away. Zahi Hawass is the very vocal head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "While I believe that Egyptian monuments are the shared heritage of mankind," he told TIME by e-mail, "I also believe that...