Word: championing
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These games are also the last before the Crimson makes its Ivy debut against Penn on September 26. If Harvard wants to repeat as league champion, this would be the opportune time to prove itself...
...times of economic uncertainty and political weakness, and Beck has emerged as a virtuoso on the strings of their discontent. Rush Limbaugh, with his supreme self-confidence, holding forth with "half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair," found his place as the triumphant champion of the Age of Reagan. Macho Sean Hannity captured the cocky vibe of the early Bush years, dunking the feckless liberal Alan Colmes for nightly swirlies on the Fox News Channel. Both men remain media dynamos, but it is Beck - nervous, beset, desperate - who now channels the mood of many...
...competition, Harvard’s lowest round on the Desert Course. The highly-touted newcomer will be counted on significantly this year to step up and fill the void left by last year’s seniors, including four-time All-Ivy team member and 2006 individual Ivy League champion Emily Balmert. “Katie is probably going to be one of the best players in the Ivy League this year,” Sheldon said. “And after four years, she might be one of the best ever to come through the Ivy League...
...Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) not for cheating or doping but for allegedly not being female. "Coach used to tell me there are many ways to kill a cat," she told a crowd outside her parents' thatched, mud-walled home. "I have killed it. That's why I am champion." More confusion was provided by Semenya's ancestors in the Sepedi tribe, who were in the habit of naming villages in the area after planets. Semenya's people, it turns out, come from Venus and Mars...
...Right. So how - talk about that a little bit - I mean, how you are both kind of cause and effect of this, and you're also in some ways the great champion of it, of these ideas and values that are changing the way civic society works. The President: Well, look, I think our campaign was an expression of people wanting to be engaged and involved in different ways. They didn't want to just be passive consumers of political television ads. They wanted to have their voices heard. They wanted to interact with their membership - or with their neighbor...