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...just in the right place at the right moment,” Michaud said. But as soon as the milestone was announced over the PA, the crowd saluted the rookie with thunderous applause.As the second period opened, the Bobcats clearly wanted to start fresh and assert themselves on the ice. The visitors’ aggression did allow the Crimson an early power play opportunity, but Quinnipiac’s goalie held tough, and it was the Bobcats who earned one of their few promising opportunities with a shorthanded breakaway. Fraser had to commit a holding penalty on Quinnipiac?...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Restrained in Penalty-Filled Battle | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...list of all the shortcomings of John McCain, the apparent Republican nominee. These, too, were tired and predictable: he opposes torture, he did not vote for Bush’s tax cuts and he supports “amnesty” for illegal immigrants. This led you to assert that Republicans may be better off voting for Clinton in the same way that Churchill was forced to ally himself with Stalin in order to fight Hitler...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: An Open Letter to Ann Coulter | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...that Palestinian suicide bombers are less likely to be from poor backgrounds and more likely to have finished high school. He has also found that the number of terrorist incidents is higher in countries that spend more on social welfare programs. Based on these findings, it is reasonable to assert that terrorists do not despise us for who we are—with our relatively high standards of living—but rather, for what...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: The Flaws of Interventionism | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...Committee. Though details are highly classified, his lawyers claim that he and others were tortured and videotaped, charges that Hayden and other CIA officials deny. On Feb. 5, Hayden admitted to Congress that the CIA had used waterboarding on Khaled Sheik Mohammed and two others. The CIA continues to assert that it does not engage in torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Charges of Gitmo Torture | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

...think if you look at how Think Secret defended the lawsuit when it was filed,” Ciarelli said, “that reflects very positively on the ability of online journalists to assert their First Amendment rights...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Think Secret,’ Apple Settle On 2005 Leak Case | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

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