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Still, the Crimson needs only two victories to win the tournament, and it has proven this year that it can beat any of the other four teams playing. And even if its season ends next Saturday, the Crimson can skate off the ice holding their heads high...
Harvard had not made the NCAA tournament since the 1998 season, which means this year’s team has no postseason experience. Delaney-Smith considers the inexperience a weakness her team will have to overcome, but she feels her team has proven itself in pressure situations throughout this season...
...continues, the government will have resigned itself to infusing boatloads of cash into the floundering rail system. Amtrak, critics grouse, has proven itself incapable of surviving without federal aid. Warrington counters that Amtrak is expected to perform like a profitable business but to provide services - like those sparsely-ridden long-haul routes - like a non-profit organization. And, he argues, while everyone complains about the money that's been lavished on Amtrak - $22 billion since the agency's inception - no one mentions that the government spent $27.5 billion in 2001 alone to keep our highways moving...
Imagine that scientists at a major drug company announced the discovery of a new drug, clinically proven to be effective in the treatment of symptoms of glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, AIDS and migraines, all with moderate short term side-effects and no long term ones. The drug has no potential for overdose and no risk of physical dependence. Now imagine that the United States government deemed this substance to be medically worthless, classified it with the most dangerous and addictive narcotics and, along with state and local governments, proceeded to spend over $30 billion a year attempting to eradicate...
...reputation in the public eye for the disastrous handling of Geoghan. By removing Spagnolia, Law seems to be acting solely on hearsay without having launched a full investigation. Making snap judgments on such a damning accusation goes against the very foundation of American law that one is innocent until proven guilty...