Word: defender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trying to defend Brown's star guard was theorder of the day for Delaney-Smith's troops.Redding oozes presence, and she made it knownearly on. With a lay-up, a pair of baselinejumpers and a three in Egelhoff's face, she scoredBrown's first nine points before Harvard had timeto blink...
Some scholars at Harvard defend the department,arguing that the dominance of other schools stemsfrom over-specialization. Nonetheless, for atop-ranked department to content itself withsecond- or even third-best in all of the basicapproaches to one of the major fields seems like amindset that is unlikely to bring much in the wayof improvements...
...Crimson will look to defend its 21-gamewinning streak and No.1 national ranking againstDartmouth and Boston College next weekend...
...seemed that we spent the year in the moral faculty lounge debating the weight of our principles, there was value in that exercise as well. You learn more about the views you hold when you're forced to defend them. Tom DeLay tried to frame the debate as a choice between relativism and absolute truths, but there were subtler arguments advanced by both sides. Smart virtuecrats like Bill Bennett argued that a leader who occasionally drank in the evenings was not impeachable, but one who drank before deciding on troop deployments maybe was. White House officials agonized in private over...
...costly missile-defense system that could be obsolete tomorrow." He charged that the price tag was too high and the threat too murky. "It would violate the arms-control agreements that we have made, and these agreements make us more secure," he declared. "That is the wrong way to defend America." That may still be true, but the President's amazing about-face has fundamentally trumped the debate. Star Wars: the Sequel has officially opened...