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While these statistics paint a blanket picture of the Crimson’s dominance this season, the team has relied on a number of standout individuals to bolster its efforts. Harvard has seen stellar play from co-captain Andre Akpan and Rogers. Akpan is leading the team in goals with 11 and also has six assists. Rogers’ score last week was his sixth of the season, accompanied by his five assists...
Often, moderate bias is just the result of caution, but the effect is to bolster centrist political positions - not least by implying that they are not political positions at all but occupy a happy medium between the nutjobs. Meanwhile, conservatives see moderate bias as liberal, and liberals see it as conservative - letting journalists conclude that it's not bias at all. (See TIME's special report "Obama After a Year: What's Changed, and What Hasn...
...disputed election, the Iranian government would have more incentive to accept President Barack Obama's offer for an open discussion about the fractured relations between Iran and the U.S. According to this line of thinking, a contested government in Iran would need a deal with the West to bolster its international legitimacy. Further to the argument, the conservative Ahmadinejad was said to be one of the few Iranian leaders who could then pull off an about-face on 30 years of anti-Americanism and do a deal with the "Great Satan...
...chaplains believe their real value is more long term than game-day ministering. Through teaching Scripture and individual counseling, they attempt to bolster the players' values, so that their priorities, especially when they leave the regulated world of football, do not lead them down the path of self-destruction. At the same time, the chaplains help the players understand the acceptability of being forceful on the field, even as good Christians...
...things like poetry—the idea of a place in which people gather round the ashtray Saturday nights to discuss Kafka’s lost manuscripts seemed incredible. Sure, that initial perception may have been laughably idealistic. And yet everything I watched, read, or heard about seemed to bolster it: Columbia-based Jewish literary criticism of the ’40s and ’50s, left-wing magazines like “Partisan Review” and “Commentary,” Strand Bookstore’s 18 miles of used and rare books, Beat memoirs...