Word: proved
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...tournament] is really important because our Eastern Indoor is in the fall and we want to prove we're still first in the East," Rival said. "I think a lot of people will count us out because two of our top three players are gone, but the freshmen have integrated and made the transition really well...
...completely ignores any chance for reasonable compromise. The house masters' decision is not an assault on the Bill of Rights. It is only a shortsighted effort to keep things tidy. Student publications, solicited or not, certainly deserve to be read by students, yet central bins or baskets might prove to be viable alternatives. In any event, the Masters are justified in wanting cleaner hallways. Unfortunately, the Crimson has adopted a knee-jerk position in a zealous rush to stake the moral high ground...
...year in lost taxes. Bentsen's proposal is unlikely to stop the stampede to cut capital gains, and it could become the next giveaway that Congress and the President will seize upon. But the prospect of a huge loss in revenue at a time of record deficits will probably prove unacceptable...
...last summer, Rothschild created such a vulgar scene complaining to the hotel desk that his fraternity brothers decided to check into his background. They learned that another guy named Rothschild had pulled off some funny business at the SAE chapter in Berkeley years before. After they demanded that he prove his identity, Maurice skipped town. He showed up in Bronxville, N.Y., to pick up his belongings from a rented room and has not been sighted since...
...drug use, as Bennett argues, is indeed a reflection of the nation's values. And as long as American society continues to place a higher premium on titillation than truth and on callousness than compassion, the latest attack on drugs may prove, like all the failed battle plans of the past, to be mostly futile flag waving...