Word: pushed
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...campaign remains frightening for what it speaks of today’s new brand of campus activism, at Harvard and elsewhere. Centered on criticism without attempting to be constructive, this campus discourse—of which Islamo-Fasicsm Awareness Week is but one manifestation—actively undermines the push for a just and equitable peace. It plays into the long-standing deception that peace can be achieved not by sacrifice, but by brute force; that our enemies today must remain our enemies forever; and that compromise and appeasement are equivalent terms.American college students must refuse to play into this...
...time in those two states, particularly New Hampshire. Giuliani was not really expecting to beat Romney in the first two states, only slow him down, take the air of inevitability out of him, and - who knows? - maybe pull off a surprise early win. Even as they launched that push, however, aides sought to lower expectations: Giuliani's top aide Mike DuHaime said his operation was "momentum-proof," meaning it could contend with any other candidate who emerged unbeaten from the early states...
...military says it's fighting back. This past week the army command sent in 15,000 regular army troops, helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles to battle Fazlullah's ragtag band of some 500 militants. The goal is to push them back into their mountain redoubts where the winter snows might keep them out of the way long enough to secure low-lying villages. When the fighting is over, says Fazli Raziq, he will return. But his wife Zaibi feels the violence will not end: "I know in my heart that there will never be peace." For her, and for many...
Even some parents who started drinking the tutoring Kool-Aid are becoming disillusioned. "We've come to terms with the fact that our son will learn to read when he's ready," says Monteiro, who stopped sending him to tutors in August. "To push for more to keep up with the Joneses was not appropriate for him." Now if only the Joneses could learn to ease up as well...
...fouled for an and-one attempt to take the lead.Magnarelli missed the free throw, however, and Holy Cross went back to its bread-and-butter, finding Clifford inside and then shutting off the driving lanes for the Crimson on the defensive end. That was as far as Harvard pushed, as it seemed to have used up all its intensity getting back into the game and not saving enough for closing it out.“We ran out of gas, we didn’t have that last push,” junior guard Drew Housman said...