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...Wide Array of Experts and Thinkers" was largely characterized by hand-wringing, worrywart American élites (save for Tommy Franks) who opined that Iraq is a disaster. Those who live in the Middle East and have a direct investment in democracy, however, see the value of the U.S.'s hard-fought quest to stabilize Iraq, defeat Islamic terrorism and bring liberty to oppressed peoples. Our Founding Fathers would be proud of the latter and disgusted by the former...
...ranked Hartwick for two quarters, before the Hawks blew the game open in the second half.“We gave up too many unnecessary goals,” Farrar said. “Hartwick is a good team and they are going to get some hard-fought, well-earned goals because they are highly skilled. “But we didn’t make them work hard enough. We gave up some really unnecessary counter-attack goals and we just can’t do that. That is a huge difference,” he added. The Crimson...
...Stephanie Schnitter were serving for the match at 30-30, two points away from attaining a doubles point that would have been the difference. Three games later, Harvard had lost 9-7, which proved to be the difference as the Tribe defeated the Crimson, 4-3, in a hard-fought match yesterday...
...glove for his third goal of the year. Much like last week’s Game Three against St. Lawrence, an energetic first period presaged success in the rest of the game. “It was hard to play catch-up all night,” said Big Green captain Mike Ouellette, “when we expected a tight, hard-fought game.” The Crimson piled it on in the second period, riding the momentum from the two-goal opening period to tally three early scores, including a shorthander by junior Steve Mandes, in the initial...
...match of the night, he took out Oklahoma’s Jake Hager in an overtime thriller to complete the comeback and ensure his sixth-place finish. Ogunwole could place no higher as a result of two close losses in the round of six on Saturday, punctuated by a hard-fought, double-overtime defeat to eight-seeded Michael Faust of Virginia Tech. “When he won the round of 12, that was such a big match,” Weiss said. “He lost two tough bouts in the final round of 6, but there...