Word: dealt
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...think there’s an apprehension in our minds,” head coach Frank Sullivan said about losing the big man mid-season.With Cusworth manning the post, the year opened nicely, with a 75-71 non-conference victory over Maine. From there, though, Harvard was dealt two straight losses by stronger opponents in Boston University and Michigan, and a third defeat against Holy Cross put the Crimson at 1-3.But then, Harvard rattled off six victories in its next seven games, knocking off both New Hampshire and Vermont on the road in overtime. In the Vermont game, sophomore standout Drew...
...lowest level of proof) that they happened. To get a sense of the absurdity of this, think of someone found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt-the highest level of proof-of dealing 20 grams of cocaine, and the judge saying, hey, there's evidence that you dealt 10 times that amount, so you get an extra eight years...
...smart enough, strong enough, mean enough. Sharp saw Dingell up close the last time Big John reluctantly tackled air pollution--the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act that successfully dealt with acid rain. Now Dingell has awakened to global warming, holding more than two dozen hearings on the issue since February and extracting on-the-record promises of cooperation from heads of industry more accustomed to obstruction...
...constitution so that the newborns of illegal aliens do not automatically become U S citizens? -Raymond Ogilvie, Santa Maria, Calif.I have co-sponsored legislation that says that children born to illegal aliens cannot have automatic citizenship. And actually, I don't think our bill violates the 14th amendment, which dealt specifically with the children of slaves, not with illegal aliens like we have now. There's a case to be made, and I would like to have it tested in the courts...
...appearance in the governor's mansion in Kandahar under a pink sheet, a wound on his head and his naked torso bloodied by two injuries, certainly dealt a psychological blow to the Taliban, for whom Dadullah has emerged as a powerful propaganda rallying point. His persona was used to recruit new fighters by the Taliban, with leaflets distributed only last week in Zabul province urging former mujahedin who had fought the Soviets in the 1980s to rally behind him. After losing a leg as a young mujaheed in the anti-Soviet jihad, Dadullah rose through the ranks of the Taliban...