Word: led
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Additionally, Larson and Gunther earned the Ivy's two individual honors, Player and rookie of the Year, respectively. Larson--a unanimous selection--and Gunther led a Crimson defense that allowed just three goals in seven Ivy League matches...
...Vietnam War issues, where McCain has reason to harbor anger, he has displayed a surprising ability to let it go. He befriended David Ifshin, the war protester whose speeches were piped into his cell, and he led the charge to forgive the country that held him for so long. The effort took a tremendous toll on McCain, says Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, also a decorated Vietnam War hero, who watched the Navy pilot under siege by members of his own party and some veterans' groups. "I saw him suffer a lot of outrageous, outlandish accusations about his character and patriotism...
...Ibrahim Asgharzadeh now insists, all his idea. On Nov. 4, 1979, Asgharzadeh, then a radical 24-year-old engineering student, led a furious mob down Taleghani Street in Tehran, crashed through the U.S. embassy's gates and began a 444-day siege that not only humiliated America but also cemented a new Iranian political order. But these days, Asgharzadeh is a changed man. At 44, he is a yuppie-ish politician with a seat on Tehran's municipal council, and he is frequently denounced by hard-liners. He has shaved his beard and clearly prefers cracking jokes to raising...
...GRAND PRIX, SPAIN. Two villages, led by their mayor and a star, compete, in costume, in games such as retrieving a fake nugget from an obstacle course without being tossed by a young bull. (Discovery...
...score; now, the United States Supreme Court is going to decide whether you can do it out loud. The battle over the separation of Church and State in schools moved onto the sports field Monday, as the Supreme Court elected to review a Texas high court decision banning student-led group prayers at football games. The case arises from a 1995 complaint in the Santa Fe school district near Galveston against the local school board's decision to allow students to read any message or "invocation" over the PA system at halftime. A Federal judge ruled that such messages...