Word: leadings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...came just 10 minutes in. Last year’s Ivy Rookie of the Year wouldn’t need any help, as she dribbled past Lion defenders from 18 yards out before whipping the ball into the right side of the net to give Harvard the 1-0 lead...
Such is the role of morality in the health-care debate. While most intuitively understand that a world with universal health insurance would lead to fewer deaths, bankruptcies, and other misfortunes than the status quo, politicians like Grayson who emphasize this fact are dismissed by colleagues as crazy. Those who wish to entrench the current system—or ,perhaps worse, those like Lieberman who are willing to entrench it if to do so serves their own ends—are above reproach. Their opinions are “respected.” Their cravenness is not even...
...increasing the national debt,” he not only spouts incorrect facts—the CBO estimates that a strong public option would save $150 billion over ten years—but he also misses the point. An increase in national debt does not in itself lead to negative moral consequences. If the goals of the spending—such as providing health care to the currently uninsured—are sufficiently worthwhile, the net result is almost certainly positive. But Lieberman is not interested in these kinds of moral discussions. An increased national debt is worth avoiding...
...century, when a New York commission on capital punishment included the suggestion that the method might prove more humane than hanging. According to Robert M. Bohm, a professor at the University of Central Florida who has written extensively on capital punishment, the proposal was rejected over concerns it would lead the public to associate the hypodermic needle - only recently introduced as an important medical tool - with death. During World War II, lethal injection was part of the Nazis' chilling arsenal of methods for disposing of sick, weak and disabled prisoners, along with the gas chamber and firing squad. After...
...pressure late in the first half and earned a penalty corner with 19 seconds left in the first half. Co-captain Kristin Bannon got the ball to sophomore Carly Dickson, but Dickson’s shot was blocked as time expired, preserving Columbia’s 1-0 lead heading into halftime...