Word: hands
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...team was handed an unexpected equalizer in unfortunate circumstances; in Clayton’s first set tiebreaker, the co-captain took a one-point lead before opponent Freeman retired through a hand injury...
...Even with a win in hand, the Crimson who remained on the court closed out their matches with tenacity. Rosenkrans found herself in a back-and-forth struggle at third singles, earning a crucial break at 4-3 to earn some breathing room. The sophomore proceeded to hold easily, securing a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 decision...
...Federalist Papers are read and studied intensively. In “Bureaucratic Politics: Military, Government, Economic and Social Organizations,” a sampling of decision theory, non-parametric statistics and stochastic modeling is combined with a healthy reading of Alfred Chandler’s The Visible Hand, the history of the U.S. Army, and Mary Douglas’s How Institutions Think. There are many other courses at Harvard that combine narrative, philosophical, and quantitative methods, and this combination represents one of the real strengths of modern political science education...
...There’s basically a big club on his left hand,” Baise said. “It definitely affected his defense, not so much his offense. He was hampered by it a little bit, and it hurt. He’s a real tough guy and he played through it, but there’s no denying that there were points that we gave away because of that injury...
...mistake his quiet, deliberative style for softness. There is the fear that he won't have the strength to stand up to the Israelis (or the Iranians) or to the left wing of his party on health care or to the porkers on the defense budget. On the other hand, there are three dead Somali pirates who attest to this President's ability to make tough decisions in a timely fashion. Obama won't stand up to everyone, always; he is, after all, a politician. But the quality of fights he does choose will determine whether he builds his legacy...