Word: contestable
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...touching the wall within one second of each other. He led the pack with a time of 21.07, followed by Jones in third with 21.65 and sophomore James Bailey in fifth with 21.87.Cromwell finished out the day on a similar high note, winning the last individual race of the contest, the 400-yard individual medley. Sophomore Sam Wollner touched the wall after that to take second place.Rathgeber also grabbed two wins. In only the fourth event of the meet, the 100-yard backstroke, he led a one-two finish, followed by Quinn.Rathgeber rounded out the meet with a second...
...Ibrahim Jaaber claimed almost all of the preseason accolades doled out by various media outlets.But while Stehle’s average of 14 points, nine boards and five assists per league game and Cusworth’s output of 13 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per Ivy contest are impressive, they pale in comparison to the numbers posted by junior sharpshooter Jim Goffredo.After serving a two-year apprenticeship behind single-season three-point record holder Kevin Rogus ’05, Goffredo made his first collegiate start in the Crimson’s season-opener against Vermont...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may console herself with the fact that Abbas was popularly elected last year "on a platform of peace," but Hamas didn't contest that race. Moreover, nobody seems to remember that even within Fatah, Abbas's relatively moderate positions were under threat: Topping the ruling party's electoral slate on Wednesday was Marwan Barghouti, a leader who insists on the right to wage "armed struggle" to end the occupation and currently resides in an Israeli prison on a terrorism conviction...
Despite its history, HSBC needs to do far more business in developing markets like China to spur growth. After focusing much of its energy over the past seven years on mature economies, it is locked in a global contest with its chief rival, Citigroup, to tap the pocketbooks of the world's newly rich. From South Korea to India to Brazil, HSBC is expanding its branch network, launching new financial products and marketing its brand. In December HSBC acquired 10% of Vietnam's Techcombank; in November HSBC said it planned to launch the first independent investment bank in Saudi Arabia...
...bring to Cambridge (we know) the best students and (we trust) the best faculty, should they not engage with each other, and learn from each other, rather more directly than they do? I am convinced that only if we succeed in this effort can we hope to contest the view that the better part of a Harvard education lies outside the classroom...