Word: grips
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...coach Gene Kininmonth said in a January article on the team website, “If there is going to be a spoiler [to the proposal] it will be the ECAC, which currently controls men’s rowing nationally. I doubt it is about to willingly loosen its grip on the sport...
...worse than Bush claims. Even White House officials acknowledge that the U.S. has lost control of swaths of Iraq, including parts of the capital, where insurgents roam with near impunity. While Allawi says 15 of 18 provinces are controlled by forces friendly to the new Iraqi government, that grip is shaky in Sunni areas. Even in the relatively subdued Shi'ite south, coalition forces and their Iraqi recruits face daily harassment from militants loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. And the military believes that the al-Zarqawi-led insurgency is becoming more ruthless and resilient...
...seems to understand what that means. “Is it a city?” “Oh, that’s like India, right?” “Is that in the U.S.?” As a plague of geographic ignorance continues to grip the nation (only one in seven Americans can find Iraq on a map), the puzzled responses Mika has heard since he arrived in the fall testify to a disturbing reality: Harvard is not immune. Harvard is, however, self-aware. Conversations with a number of peers have revealed a deep...
...Berlusconi will doubtless try to put a similar grip on Prodi's new government. After all, the center-left's slim margin of victory adds to already existing doubts about Prodi's prospects of keeping his disparate allies from imploding. On foreign policy, for example, he must manage a core of coalition partners who are die-hard Communists and want Italy to break openly with U.S. policy. Prodi, who served as Italian Prime Minister in the late 1990s and later became President of the European Commission, has said he wants a more Europe-focused approach than was laid out under...
...second flier charges that the invasion of Iraq was “a war for Israel,” and it claims that U.S. policy toward Israel “is an expression of the Jewish-Zionist grip on America’s political and cultural life.” That pamphlet lists Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review in Newport Beach, Calif., as its author...