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OFFENSIVE LINE--Harvard has four starters returning from last year, and that should say enough about the Crimson's strength in this area. Two-time all-Ivy tackle, Captain Dan Jiggetts returns as the bulwark of the Harvard offensive line. At center, All-Ivy senior Carl Culig returns. Returning vets Joe Antonellis and Kevin McCafferty will man the guards posts. The only vacancy is Brian Hehir's tackle spot Jerry McGillicuddy and Bob Wagner are the leading candidates to take over the starting berth...
...favored the cultivation of a small faction, a "Talented Tenth" as he called it, which would lead the masses of black people in their fight for equality. DuBois's program left him open to charges of elitism, and the Niagara Movement, which he organized in 1905 as a bulwark of opposition to Washington, failed because of those charges...
Heavyweight Kip Smith registered his finest performance of the season in manhandling Dartmouth bulwark Reggie Williams, an All-East lineman in football. Smith should have pinned Williams, but a nice escape prevented the icing...
...ordered 70 F-4 Phantom jets and 800 British Chieftain tanks to bolster a mighty armed force. This swelling strength raised apprehensions among some Arab governments in the region and evoked new hostility?but also won new respect in Washington, where Iran is valued as an anti-Communist bulwark. Though much poverty and illiteracy hang on in Iran, the middle class is rapidly spreading and the gross national product is expanding at an astounding rate of 50% a year. The Shah, who aims to turn Iran into "the Japan of West Asia," argued for price increases long before Faisal...
...what makes Roll, Jordan, Roll important is its complex and deeply respectful account of the systems of ideas slaves and masters developed. In each case, Genovese stresses the contradiction within the system that made it meaningful and alive, the tension between its role as a bulwark of the world as it was and its promise of something better, if only in some other world...