Word: defers
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...Events since March 10 have marked a watershed for the thousands of Tibetans, mostly youngsters, who disagree with the Dalai Lama's moderation but have been conditioned to defer to their spiritual leader. While China's restrictions on the media make it extremely difficult to know what exactly sparked the uprising within Tibet, many young Tibetans outside their homeland feel it is time to stop being pushed around by Beijing. "His Holiness is a monk, he advises patience," says Nwawang, a 33-year-old chef who fled Tibet for India over 10 years ago. "But we can't leave things...
...sell him a piece of property; Eliot then couldn't afford the rent when a roll of the dice landed him on that property. "He didn't realize his own rights," Bernard told Masters years later, adding that he had taught his son a lesson: "Never defer to authority...
...risk. While not all of Amaker’s actions described by the Times deserve condemnation, his general pattern of behavior is troubling. Certainly, Harvard should strive for excellence in athletic as well as academic pursuits, but the latter must always take precedence, and the team should ultimately defer to the greater interests of the University. Whether this requires keeping standards above a certain level, or scaling back on aggressive recruiting to remain beyond reproach, Amaker has a responsibility that is greater than the need...
...wrote in today's Predictions box that voters might not want to give an Oscar to an actress so young, figuring she had a lifetime to win one. And now I think: what a mistake it is to defer any award to a worthy achiever of any age. Two years ago, Heath Ledger's brilliantly opaque performance in Brokeback Mountain just missed getting Best Actor. He was 26 then. And now he's dead...
...qualify from each weapon.” An understaffed women’s squad had the hardest time of it. The top epee fencer in the junior international circuit signed herself on to four years at Harvard, making the epee look unstoppable. But after her decision to defer a year, the weapon lacks depth. Still, junior co-captain Maria Larsson fought her way through the stiff competition to finish 18th of 43. Foil looks to be a bit stronger with three returning fencers in sophomores Misha Goldfeder, Anna Podolsky, and Arielle Pensler, who finished 15th, 17th, and 19th, respectively...