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...stop the run,” junior cornerback Andrew Berry said. “That’s been a strong suit of our defense over the last three years. We knew they hadn’t been challenged to throw the football. We were going to commit nine guys to the run and have [senior cornerback] Steve [Williams] and me challenge their receivers...
...Though routine maintenance work can way to stave off larger construction projects, the College should “expect that at some point, you may have to commit to a bigger period of time” to confront larger problems from a wider perspective, Dingman said last week...
...tastes of the faction dominating party caucuses. So far Nixon has been able to avoid a decisive break with the Old Guard, but if the party split widens during the heat of the fall campaign, as it already shows signs of doing, he may be forced to commit himself definitely to one side or the other...
...forth and change the world. The explosion of social networks on the Internet--Facebook users have affiliated with more than 80,000 causes--has emboldened them to believe their generation will make change. But does new technology make it more or less likely that young people today will commit themselves to do something for others...
...nation, and official figures seem to support that claim. The party charges on its website that more than half of all citizenship requests - in 2006, approximately 50,000 were granted in this country of 7.5 million - go to immigrants from the Balkans and Turkey. The SVP claims those immigrants commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes and abuse Swiss social and welfare benefits. Some official statistics do attribute the rise in serious infractions to resident foreigners, but the numbers are not clear. For example, official statistics show that in 2007 nearly 70% of all prisoners in Switzerland were foreigners...