Word: beatingly
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...expected their defense to be weaker and we thought we would score in transition.” On paper, the Terriers were not going to be an easy opponent for Harvard. Ranked nationally, BU had only lost Northwestern, the defending national champions and No. 19 George Mason. Additionally, BU beat No. 14 Yale 10-7. The Crimson lost to the Bulldogs 6-13. This loss has not discouraged the Crimson, rather it has made it more determined to improve the little things such as taking care of the ball. “Overall I think losing that way just makes...
...Holy Cross on top for good.“[Akashian] is their best guy, I’ve played against him in the summer,” Haviland said. “The wind was blowing out, and I wanted to make sure he didn’t beat us with one swing. I was pretty careful with him, and maybe I shouldn’t have been.”“We have no problem bringing [Haviland] and we have a lot of confidence in him,” Vance said. “He left...
...governor's job in 2002 on an electoral strategy that looked far more like Obama's than Clinton's. In the Democratic primary, he carried only 10 of the state's 67 counties but racked up huge margins in Philadelphia and its relatively liberal suburbs. That was enough to beat Bob Casey Jr.-the party establishment's pick in the primary for the job and now a Senator-by a hefty 14-point margin...
...holds so much sway in Pennsylvania politics actually grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He migrated to Philadelphia for college and stayed there after law school, in the district attorney's office. In 1977 Rendell audaciously ran against his boss and beat him in the primary. But his faith in himself hasn't always been so well placed. Rendell fell far short when he ran for governor in 1986, getting trampled, as it happened, by Casey's father and setting up a familial rivalry-one that continues in the 2008 presidential race now that Casey is Obama...
...calling the shots since the country's founding in 1923 - against a powerful, newly moneyed class rooted in political Islam. The political vehicle of this class, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), was reelected last summer with an overwhelming 47% of the vote. The old guard, having failed to beat the newcomers at the ballot box, has now asked the country's top court to ban the AKP and its leaders for undermining secularist principles they say are enshrined in Turkey's constitution...