Word: favor
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...that these McCarthyite tactics of guilt by association are returning to favor, perhaps we should remember innocence by association as well. After all, the pope’s dear cousin was killed by the Nazis. So, too, was Rene Lefebvre, father of the SSPX’s founder. He died at the Sonnenburg concentration camp in 1944, two years after his arrest by the Gestapo for participating in the French resistance. While pronouncing on the evils of historical forgetting, it would be wise for us not to be guilty of it ourselves...
...balls off the back glass, reflexive chop volleys, and potent defensive lobs to defeat the Tigers’ Maggie O’Toole (7-9, 9-4, 9-3, 9-5), who a week earlier had bested Williams, 3-1.With the score 3-2 in the Tigers’ favor, No. 8 freshman Cece Cortes led Nikki Sequiera, 2-0, in games and was within two points of winning her match, and ultimately the championship. However, Sequiera launched a comeback for the ages, winning 27 out of the next 30 points to take the match...
...games decided by two goals or less. The Crimson’s solution to Scrivens is simple. “[We plan to] play our game and get a lot of traffic in front of him,” Rogers said. Home-ice advantage should work in favor of Harvard and boost the Crimson’s confidence. The atmosphere surrounding the game is tremendous and intense, and tickets sold out early this week. Harvard’s big game against Cornell is definitely the anticipated contest of the weekend, but the Crimson must make sure they do not overlook...
...Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is reported to favor enlisting Tehran's help in the war against Afghan drug lords and their supply routes. That would be a smart call, says Sajadpour. Once fruitful dialogue and cooperation have been established on the issue of drugs, he says, "then you can gradually expand the scope [of talks] to include nuclear issues, Hamas and Hizballah...
...given how hard it was for the President to win the backing of enough members of his own party, let alone the GOP, the stimulus fight showed the limits of his seemingly enormous electoral mandate. Many Democrats, for instance, felt the White House tried too hard to win the favor of Republicans, who in the end didn't lend their support. "I am not happy with it," said Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa. "You are not looking at a happy camper. I mean, they took a lot of stuff out of education. They took it out of health, school...