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...together score 38 points. “We struggle defensively when we can’t shoot the ball well,” head coach Tommy Amaker said. “And certainly that’s not a good combination—not scoring and then not defending.”It was a sign of bad things to come–more specifically, of the dismal matchup with now conference-champion Cornell that ended with a score of 86-53 and the clipping of a championship net for the Big Red. “The students came...
...From Israel’s perspective, the implications are clear and it will defend itself at any price, as costly and as tragic as it may be. On the Northern front, a million Israelis were displaced in the Second Lebanon War, due to an incessant raid of missiles emerging from Hezbollah outposts in Southern Lebanon. With an average of 150 missiles a day raining on its citizens for over a month, Israel had no choice but to target the very villages in which Hezbollah had been taking refuge among civilians. On the Southern front, the citizens of Sderot...
...knows what other people are thinking (and saying, however privately). To defend, after all, is to deflect. He must deny the weight of affirmative action on Hammonds’ hiring precisely because its significant role in decision-making at Harvard is an open secret...
...Zhuhai case is different in one critical respect: after their claims were twice denied by the courts, the villagers issued a proclamation rejecting the land seizures as illegal and asserting their rights over ancestral plots for them and succeeding generations - rights they said they were prepared to "defend to the death." (Officials of Yicheng, the county seat with jurisdiction over Zhuhai, did not respond to a request by TIME for comment on the case...
...Last week the Australian Defence Force said it would defend the claim and denied that any of the soldiers acted improperly. But today the soldier who fired on the vehicle spoke for the first time about the incident and revealed he, like a number of his comrades, had left the army after the shooting and was undergoing psychiatric treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome - a condition he believes the army is not doing enough to treat...