Word: prevails
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Alliteration notwithstanding, will the nameless Golden Gophers prevail? You definitely have to count off for such a lame mascot. Almost as importantly, they've had a bunch of close games recently, they're sorry on the road, and they're coming off a 66-65 loss to Wisconsin...
Assuming reason and market interests prevail, we are still left with the sticky issue of actually deciding on a new name. Of course, some names would be preferable to others. For example, it's a pretty safe bet that a Lowell, Roosevelt, or Adams would be more amenable to the powers-that-be than a Kaczynski, McVeigh, or Orenthal James (that's O.J. for the culturally illiterate...
Harvard will have to feed off of this energy in order to prevail over a very balanced Cornell squad. Like Harvard, Cornell focuses on physical play but they also have the advantage of fast skaters and one of the best goalies in the ECAC. However, Harvard does not plan on changing its game strategy but instead bringing it up another notch...
...both the Court and the Israeli Cabinet had approved the Har Homa project. It is hard to blame the Palestinian villagers living on Har Homa for their frustration with a system that provides them few opportunities to act as their own advocates and little chance for their cause to prevail when they take their case to a court system controlled entirely by the Jewish State of Israel...
...plot proved to be one of the most irresistible appeals of the film. No ambivalent finale lies in store for the moviegoer in search of escapism; aside from the necessary sacrifice of a leading hero (Alec Guinness' venerable elder, Ben Kenobi), the spacemen in white hats (or helmets) prevail in the end. A thoroughly unpretentious narrative, the story succeeds in assuring its audience that all modern movies need not be full of existentialist greys to attract reasonably discerning cineastes...