Word: fight
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Princeton had already crushed UMass the day before, and the Tigers were expecting to roll over the Crimson, who were ready to fight the good fight...
Princeton had already crushed UMass the day before, and the Tigers were expecting to roll over the Crimson, who were ready to fight the good fight...
Idealism is useful inasmuch as it forces us to define our values and love them enough to fight for them. But it cannot be an excuse to sidestep the grim realities of war. We cannot allow our idealism to replace our vigor. By promising to fight we have to fight with our whole hearts...
...cleanly between two camps: those in Pat Buchanan's populist, isolationist fortress who were arguing we should leave Europe to the Europeans, and those who, belatedly in some cases, fell in step behind Arizona Senator John McCain, the former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and called for NATO to fight on even harder to preserve the credibility of U.S. power...
Indeed, many big-city mayors have bemoaned that while they can fight crime and fill potholes around a school, they wield little influence over what happens inside. That responsibility has rested in the hands of superintendents, school boards and unions, whose often fractious interests result in personal fiefdoms and byzantine politics that keep bickering high and student achievement low. But Archer's ascension is the latest in a wave of public school takeovers, from Chicago and Cleveland, Ohio, to Buffalo, N.Y., and New Orleans. Mayors in these and other cities have all gained--or are in the process of gaining...