Word: patriots
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...minutes against George Mason Sunday. It was a good one, but not quite good enough for Harvard to avoid its first loss of the season. Merritt scored off a pretty feed from Nichols in the 69th minute, but the Crimson couldn't complete the comeback after allowing two Patriot goals earlier in the second half. George Mason struck soon after the break, scoring just two minutes into the second frame on a header from L.J. Williams. "The game really went back and forth between the two teams," Nichols said. "It was about effort, and it was a pretty even game...
...spokesman, known only as Abu Hala, said the Ba'ath leadership under Saddam's deputy, Izzat al-Douri, were "more than willing to work with Allawi, because we see him as a nationalist and Iraqi patriot, and not a sectarian figure." He said the party didn't agree with all of Allawi's policies when he headed a transitional Iraqi government in 2004, but "we have no doubt that he would represent the interests of Iraq, not of Shi'ites or Sunnis or any other group...
...rich mix of perspectives and interests they offered, from my blockmate who was the musical director of an a capella group by day and a budding social theorist by night to my section-mate who taught me about her experience being arrested in a public protest against the Patriot Act. In the support I provided to friends who were struggling with problem sets or relationships, I learned what it means to be compassionate and generous...
...Moore has a genius for confrontational stunts - demanding a meeting with General Motors Chairman Roger Smith, chatting up an addled Charlton Heston on gun control, buttonholing Congressmen to see if any of them had actually read the Patriot Act - but the Cuba jaunt tops them all. It begins when he hears Congressional testimony indicating that detainees at Guantanamo were getting free colonscopies and nutrition counseling. (One female soldier cited in the film says, "They get way better health care than I do.") So he rounded up several volunteer rescue workers from the World Trade Center site who had suffered respiratory...
...What Gonzales' team wanted in U.S.attorneys, according to an e-mail that Sampson sent to the White House, was "loyal Bushies." And thanks to a provision they quietly slipped into last year's reauthorization of the Patriot Act, they were able to put their candidates in without going through the customary route of Senate confirmation...