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...accident. By the time he arrived at the lab and the second plane had hit, the Army reservist knew that the country would be going to war. And by the end of the day, the Tennessee native decided that he would do whatever it took to defend his country...
...MacDonald said. “I think we took bad decisions...most importantly just taking bad penalties.”The Crimson’s inability to avoid the referee’s whistle, even when it came to coordinating line changes, forced the penalty kill to defend against a two-man deficit just minutes after Quinnipiac had opened the second period with its third power-play goal of the night, making the score 4-2.The ensuing 5-on-3 would end all hopes for Harvard to stay within striking distance.“That whole sequence, we take a needless...
...that context, the Kremlin is almost certainly helped more than hurt by Muratov and his eager, angry young journalists. There is no better way to defend against charges of repression than to point to a fully functioning newspaper that never has anything good to say about you. Says Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov: "When people say Russia has no free media, they totally forget about the existence of Novaya Gazeta. Certainly, this paper is quite liberal, very frequently opposing the official point of view ... We can't always agree with what is being published, but this is a normal relationship between...
...Jersey, poultry company Ise America has used such exemptions to defend disposing of unwanted live chicks in a trashcan. In a court case in the fall of 2000, the company’s lawyer opined, “how chickens are discarded, falls into agricultural management practices of my client. And we’ve had—we’ve litigated this issue before in this county with respect to my client and how it handles its manure.” When the trial judge questioned whether there is a difference between manure and live animals, the company?...
...next day at school, he threatened to tell everyone that I was a training wheel-dependant a baby. Obviously, I had to defend my honor. After wiping away the requisite tears, I went home that night, told my dad to remove my training wheels, and learned how to ride a two-wheeler. My long division could wait—I had a lot of catching...