Word: cowers
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Building decent, liberal societies requires strengthening parts of the U.S. government that don't carry guns. While our military patrols the world, our embassies increasingly cower behind barbed wire, disconnected from the societies they need to understand and help. America doesn't need to abandon the fervor that five years ago helped propel us into a disastrous war; we need to redirect it. Muscular moralism has had its day. The test now is whether we can effectively separate the two--carrying a big stick for self-defense but using less blunt instruments to improve the world...
...deals with his current group of young, talented players, highlighted by rising junior standouts Drew Housman and Evan Harris, will be the key to his success. And Amaker hopes that the Crimson will respond, not cower, in the face of his vocal and combative style of coaching, which mirrors that of his mentor Krzyzewski...
...will continue to raise issues where we strongly disagree with their approach-most especially on a Christian America and the entangling of religion and government. We will not be silent or cower to threats on the issue of separation of church and state. This principle, embodied in the First Amendment, has not only sustained America as the most religious country in the Western world, but has produced a society where non-majority religious groups have been able to feel comfortable as equal citizens...
...Seven. A crosswalk between Old Leverett and Leverett Towers. What should be a benign trip to experience the glory of Leverett Dining Hall has become an escalating game of Russian roulette. We cower when we cross DeWolfe St., unaided by any white lines painted on the asphalt, and the speeding cars waffle between letting us pass or flooring it. For the sake of our safety, a crosswalk and a "Careful…Bunny Crossing" sign are in order...
Real accomplishment in Iraq has never reached the level posited by the Bush administration in March 2003. The expectations for a post-occupation Iraq have gradually dissolved from establishing a citadel of democracy in an otherwise tumultuous Middle East to securing a nation that simply does not cower under the threat of widespread terrorism. At this point, there is no good possible outcome in Iraq: It is now a matter of bad or worse...