Word: defendable
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When fabled Houston defense attorney Dick DeGuerin strode into an Austin courthouse last week to defend Congressman Tom DeLay, he quoted Yogi Berra, asserting that this would be "d?j? vu all over again." Given the trouncing DeGuerin had handed Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle 12 years ago in their last big face-off, few observers doubted this would be a battle royale. But no one anticipated it would be d?j? vu so quickly...
...legal logjams have been cleared, few in the newsgathering business are pleased by the outcome. The murky sequence of events in the case tended to obscure the principles that journalists were trying to defend. "This case was a complete loser for the press," says Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University's school of journalism. "It exposed this traffic in secrets. And whenever the press is claiming rights that are an exception from the rest of the public, then I think it works against the press." --With reporting by Mike Allen/ Washington and Nathan Thornburgh/New York
Without the same pass threat to defend against, the Lehigh defense stacked up the line against junior tailback Clifton Dawson and kept sophomore quarterbacks Liam O’Hagan and Richard Irvin under pressure...
...world beyond our ivy-draped walls is perhaps voiced by the occasional PBH volunteer or someone of that ilk, but such an argument is rarely heard from the administration. In fact, people such as our president, who admittedly does make the occasional call to serve, seem to defend the philosophy that education can be a value-free endeavor...
Brown capitalized on Harvard’s Hartigan fixation with a mix of misdirection and play action, which regularly rendered the bulk of the Crimson’s defensive corps out of position to land a tackle on the actual ball carrier or defend a downfield pass. Bears quarterback Joe DiGiacomo passed for 141 yards in the first quarter alone, 83 of them coming on one long touchdown pass over the top of the secondary...