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Without Daly's sixth cog, reigning-Ivy-Champ Penn nose-dived out of the national rankings in the last two weeks with three defeats in tournament and league play...
...Rhodes scholarship candidate, Jenkins has received a Rockefeller Fellowship. T.J. should also be in the running for first team All-Ivy honors when that last jump shot has been taken. He has been the consistent cog in Sanders's precision offense and defense, leading the Crimson to an 8-4 Ivy record...
...This is not a major time commitment for me," Vorenberg said. "I regard myself as a very small cog in the prosecutor's office...
Sack enters Galley's head at crucial moments to deliver other thoughts that often seem inconsistent with the man-is-only-a-cog theory that permeates the book. Calley decides to tell the truth at his trial, says Sack, because "a lie violated the inner consistency of what every soldier did in Viet Nam." He is thus viewed as a loyal robot unable to make moral distinctions, while at the same time Sack tells us about Calley's intelligence and honor. Few readers are likely to swallow such contradictions. Despite Sack's intent to exculpate Calley...
...rest is history. Tom Sanders went on from this inauspicious beginning to become one of the most tenacious defensive players in the NBA, and a vital cog in the Celtic glory string of championships. In 13 seasons, Sanders played on eight championship teams. Sanders, along with Bill Russell, gave the Celtics the strongest defensive front court in the league...