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...argument that a rapid build-up of federal forces will prevent unauthorized immigration and violence on the border, that claim is debunked by the factual history of enforcement. We’ve been beefing up the border for years: Since 1990 the number of Border Patrol agents has grown from 4,000 to over 20,000, more than doubling since 2005. Since 1986, through the enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, the Border Patrol has implemented a more aggressive strategy, heavily garrisoning urban entry points and pushing migrants into the desert in the hope of halting...
...changes caught many faculty and students by surprise, as they failed to adjust their class schedules and duly spread out their work to alleviate a build-up of stress toward the end of the semester...
...tournament's organizers are confident these problems will be resolved in time. Since the end of apartheid, the country has hosted successful cricket and rugby World Cups, and the country hopes the soccer tournament will mark a new moment of unity in its divided history. Adversity also plagued the build-up to the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Eight months before the start of the tournament, a massive earthquake killed 10,000 people in Mexico City and caused the media to speculate about the possibility of moving the event elsewhere. But Mexico held on to the tournament and doggedly rebuilt...
...gorgeous, transcendental violin solo strikes up around the three-minute mark. Every song on “Declaration,” on the other hand, pleases in almost exactly the same register from beginning to end. Kings of Convenience has never aspired to the shimmering textural distortions or swirling build-up of similarly laid-back bands like Grizzly Bear; but here, the crystalline simplicity of their music is symmetric to a fault...
...Wolverines often bypassed the midfield during the game, hitting balls out of the backfield up to their forwards. Caples noted that the Crimson tends to involve its midfielders in its build-up, so Michigan’s strategy of quickly advancing the ball took Harvard’s midfielders out of the game. The Wolverines’ forwards showed tremendous quickness, and the Crimson defense had a tough time dealing with that speed...