Word: defenders
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...expression of their religious sentiment is not only a right, it is a good. Harvard should value diversity in its truest sense--diversity of beliefs--because from the interaction of undergraduates on this plane, students will both better be able to forge their own synthetic world view and to defend that perspective when required...
...After the Hartford game we've worked out some of the kinks," Stauffer said. "[We're] playing as a unit. We have a lot of depth this year. It's much tougher for opponents to defend against. We have eight or nine players who can put the ball away...
...First Lady strode to the podium at the party convention and proceeded to defend a broad view of family and community, few in the audience were surprised. "When we speak of families," she said, "we mean extended families. We mean the neighbors, even the community itself." Yet this was not Hillary Rodham Clinton's oft-repeated defense of a certain African proverb that by now even the village idiot has heard a few too many times. These words were uttered by Barbara Bush at the far-right, fanatic 1992 Republican Convention in Houston. Four years later, Bob Dole...
...debate didn't help clarify issues," said Brittany J. Nelson '00. "Both sides used the same facts to defend their different views...
...violence; in fact, the victory of the Taliban brings the country closer to the resolution of the civil war to which the U.S. has abandoned Afghanistan following the Soviet withdrawal. Nelson also points to Algeria and Turkey as countries which have embraced Islamic fundamentalism and threaten "freedom." As the defender of freedom, Nelson should have pointed out that in both countries, Islamic fundamentalists came to power legitimately through the democratic process. In Algeria, the military's suppression of democratic electoral results which awarded victory to the Islamic party plunged the country into violence and authoritarian government; curiously, the world...