Word: defenders
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Students have provided their own answers for why Europe means so little to the United States. They claim that European news is far removed from their lives. America, they say, has enough to do to take care of its own people, produce its own exports and defend itself. But while America's first responsibility should be to its own people, it can't survive on its own. The U.S. depends on Europe politically and economically. Europe is America's closest ally. It is also the largest customer of American businesses. America cannot bury its head in the sand and hope...
...couple days after his appearance, White went on ESPN's SportsCenter to defend himself. He declined to put his remarks in context...
...commit themselves only to specious diversity, to diversity they can quantify easily and trot out to belligerent students, faculty members and, most importantly, donors. They care little for true diversity, diversity of the mind and the soul. This short-hand diversity appears most clearly in the way intellectuals now defend affirmative action...
...face of the Hopwood evidence (or King's article), intellectuals no longer defend affirmative action and persecute the likes of Graglia by contending that affirmative action is merely a "plus factor." Instead, they claim that affirmative action is necessary to achieve diversity. That argument, they think, arrests any opposition. Who, after all, will deny the value of diversity...
With Nygaard's injury, there was some question before--and obviously during--the game as to who would defend Feaster, who led the nation in scoring at 28.2 points-per-game. The difficult task initially fell into the hands of freshman guard Sarah Dimson...