Word: defend
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Favored to defend their title from last year against B.U., the Harvard women did not disappoint...
...defense of Kabul, however, is undergoing its biggest change since the Soviets invaded Afghanistan a decade ago. Having already withdrawn most of its 115,000-strong invasion force, Moscow has now begun pulling out the last of the estimated 15,000 troops who form the Kabul garrison and defend the corridor north to the Soviet border. By Feb. 15, the last Soviet soldier is scheduled to be gone from Afghanistan, and the Afghan military will bear sole responsibility for the security of the capital as well as the rest of the country...
Last year, Harvard successfully defended its national title with a 6-3 victory at Hemenway Gymnasium. However, in order to defend its 72-match winning streak, the Crimson will have to overcome a strong and experienced Princeton team on its home court and in front of an expected crowd of 800. Some have described the Princeton fans as convicts out on parole...
...Armed to defend himself, Bloom pointed to the words of W.E.B. DuBois, who in Souls of Black Folk himself cited the importance of reading Shakespeare. "Does that satisfy you?" Bloom asked, and in the question one hears the heart of the problem...
Pornography protestors bomb the site of shut-down Maven's Deli, owned by Penthouse columnist and Harvard civil libertarian Alan M. Dershowitz. They are featured on Nightline when Dershowitz sues them for $21,000 in leftover pastrami costs. But he reminds Ted Koppel, "I still defend their right to free expression...