Word: defendable
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...able to score from many areas and that’s a great weapon to have,” Caples added. “We have some good depth and many players capable of putting the ball in the net and that makes us a dangerous team to defend against.” The Crimson looks to continue its winning ways as the undefeated No. 1 in the Ivy League when it travels to New Haven, Conn., to face Yale on Saturday. —Staff writer Kara T. Kelley can be reached at kkelley@fas.harvard.edu...
...world captures an American soldier, the U.S. may protest. But it is the Red Cross's assertions of a violation that will be the immediate point of pressure on the captors. "What it virtually guaranteed is that dictatorships will cite the U.S. government's own arguments to defend themselves and that will make it harder for the ICRC and everyone else to condemn and shame those governments," says Tom Malinowski, a spokesman for Human Rights Watch...
...this editorial in salute to Representative Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a true patriot. In this perilous time, in a nation that is threatening to be overtaken by pusillanimous pinkoes, it takes a special sort of man to defend the idea that freedom is a privilege, not a right...
...Prince will forcefully defend the company's personnel who were involved in a September 16 incident in Baghdad that left some 11 Iraqis dead and ignited the latest controversy. "Based on everything we currently know," he says, pending the result of an official inquiry, "the Blackwater team acted appropriately while operating in a very complex war zone...
...nomination, that is a decision that could come back to haunt him. From the time he would clinch the nomination until after next summer's Democratic Convention, when the general election campaign officially begins, he would be barred from spending anything. That would make it difficult to defend himself against certain assaults from the G.O.P. Edwards strategists say outside groups could do some of that for him, but when Bob Dole found himself in similar straits in 1996, he was reduced to doing photo ops at gas stations around the Beltway to get attention...