Word: pushed
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...League titles would leave the Harvard women’s basketball team feeling a bit confident in its game strategy and complacent with its overall performance. But you’d be wrong: the Crimson is hungrier than ever and hopes that its level of play can be pushed to new heights to secure the league crown for the third consecutive year.One of the chief goals for Harvard this season will be improving its offensive level of play, and that starts down low with its corps of forwards. Three-year starter Katie Rollins and Emma Moretzsohn—Harvard coach...
...States, it is a rare thing to hear calls for the overturning of clear majority opinion. But subjective mass sentiment has progressed too far when it is permitted to so carelessly meddle with the documents on which state and federal government are founded. Given that constitutions are meant to push back against fickle and sometimes bigoted democratic movements, states should protect their own order, and all their citizens, by insisting upon a super-majority threshhold when amendments are at hand. While this may be understood as a limitation placed on individual will, such a barrier would ultimately protect a state?...
...these people weren’t here with me.” Although he’s on the administrative end of fashion and doesn’t design clothing himself, Parent has a unique perspective when it comes to his wardrobe. “I definitely push fashion as far as it can go a lot,” he says. “I get stares every day. I get called names at times. As long as I elicit some sort of response or emotional reaction, I think that’s cool. My interest in fashion...
...rode into the 2008 MTV Music Awards on an elephant and spends most of “Thr33 Ringz” trying to convince the listener that he is the “ringleader” of R&B, T-Pain does little to push the envelope on his third album. I wasn’t expecting his signature use of Auto-Tune to be abandoned in an attempt to expose a hidden, Nas-like flow or a melodious, Usher-like voice. I was hoping for an album of infectious tunes on par with previous hits like...
...Despite the bashing they had received in the campaign from John McCain for being soft on Russia, Obama and his advisers decided not to push back against Medvedev. They issued no statement on the record or on background about the Medvedev announcement. Instead, Obama politely returned Medvedev's congratulatory Nov. 8 phone call and laid out for his Russian counterpart his own view of the U.S.-Russia agenda. Aides say Obama and Medvedev discussed substantive issues in the call, but missile defense didn't come up. The Russian President responded positively to Obama's understated reaction. "The Russians were very...