Word: pushed
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...detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whose trials are slated to begin later this year. Their lawyers are likely to use Davis' testimony to show that the Pentagon crossed legal boundaries, bolstering claims that key evidence against their clients was obtained through torture. Ensuing legal wrangling could push proceedings well into next year, after President Bush has left office. And all three candidates vying to replace him have already called for shutting Guantánamo down...
...system than an efficient system—I certainly have some experience with organizations and that is absolutely not what we’re trying to do,” Smith said in an interview last week, before explaining that the goal of bolstering the divisional deanships was to push budgetary and decision-making authority to the proper layer of the organization...
...start sequence. “We had planned to take a big first 20 strokes,” junior coxswain Kevin He said. “The start was one of the best we had.” 500 meters into the race, the Crimson made a big push to move ahead and walked through Dartmouth. By the Mass. Ave. bridge—the halfway mark of the race—the Crimson found itself with a bow-to-stern lead on its Big Green opponents. However, it seemed that Dartmouth wasn’t quite ready to give...
...length margin between itself and the trailing Crimson. In the early going, Harvard sat nearly even with MIT. At the 500-meter mark, the Tigers held a six-seat advantage over the Crimson. Coxswain Joe Lin called out an early move to keep Harvard close, urging his boat to push back on Princeton as both crews headed toward the halfway point. Harvard used the second 500 to methodically slash into Princeton’s lead, and by the time both boats sped through the Mass. Ave. Bridge, the Crimson had trimmed the margin to just three seats.And once they were...
...achievement gap between white and minority students persists. RE-EXAMINING THE GAPCRLS senior Emma L. Shreefter said that she thinks the district takes a “skewed” approach to student achievement. “I think that, ever since I was a freshman, the achievement and push for success is only for certain students—usually by race, gender, and socioeconomic status, which has really bothered me,” said Shreefter, who is also a student representative to the school committee. “It’s about showing the student they?...