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...football team stands on the cusp of history. A win Saturday would clinch Harvard’s first perfect season since...
...going to do that. It would give Bin Laden and Al Qaida a chance to regroup, and it would draw out the overall duration of the campaign and possibly even raise doubts that might make it difficult to resume. Also, it doesn't make sense to pause on the cusp of winter, because you don't want the Taliban forces to be resupplied before the cold sets...
...President Bush with a daunting task, but he has courageously risen to the challenge. Three days after the tragedy, he stood at Ground Zero, surrounded by the debris that was once the World Trade Center. While embracing New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith, Bush made an extemporaneous, off-the-cusp proclamation to the cheering rescue workers that resonated throughout our great nation: “I can hear you, the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon...
...that an American could conquer their most feared racecourse. For his part, Armstrong has been tested and tested again, and he has never tested positive. Each time the question comes up, the cancer survivor responds coolly, saving his incredulity for after the press conference. I have been to the cusp of life and death, he has said. Why would I threaten my health just to win a bike race...
...Reaction Force would undermine Irish neutrality, Sinn Fein members eager to weaken Ahern before the 2002 election - to swamp widespread but diffuse pro-European feelings. A similar anti-European coalition lost three earlier referendums, which gives Ahern some running room. On the other hand, Ireland is now on the cusp of a major shift, from being the E.U.'s biggest beneficiary - $30 billion over the last 25 years - to a net financial contributor, thanks to its booming economy. It would be a harsh result for the poor countries of Eastern Europe that are desperate to join the E.U., though hardly...